White-crested helmetshrike
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| Species: | P. plumatus
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| Prionops plumatus (Shaw, 1809)
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The White Helmetshrike (Prionops plumatus) is a species of passerine bird in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.
It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, 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, moist savanna, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
References
- BirdLife International 2004. Prionops plumatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 July 2007.
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