Orange-breasted bushshrike

Orange-breasted bushshrike
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Malaconotidae
Genus: Telophorus
Species: T. sulfureopectus
Binomial name
Telophorus sulfureopectus
(Lesson, 1831)
Synonyms

Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus
Malaconotus sulfureopectus

The orange-breasted bushshrike or sulphur-breasted bushshrike (Telophorus sulfureopectus or Chlorophoneus s. or Malaconotus s.) is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna and moist savanna. Another species, Braun's bushshrike, is sometimes called orange-breasted bushshrike, as well.

In Zambia

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