Braun's Bushshrike - BirdForum Opus

Identification

Rufous cap and orange-red throat and breast with black mask. Wings black with broad white stripe. Belly white. Bill and legs black.

Endemic to northwest Angola (Cuanza Norte escarpment).

This is a monotypic species^[2].

Regarded by some authorities as subspecies of Luehder's Bushshrike.

Mid-stratum and undergrowth of forest and forest edge.

Classified as Endangered in the 2010 IUCN Red List.^[1]

Calls include waark, whook and a soft bou-bou.

BirdLife International (2011) Species factsheet: Laniarius brauni. Downloaded from www.birdlife.org on 30/01/2011.
Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Braun's Bushshrike. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Braun%27s_Bushshrike