- Black-winged Cuckooshrike
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Black-winged Cuckooshrike 
on Banyan Ficus benghalensis at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India. Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Campephagidae Genus: Coracina Species: C. melaschistos Binomial name Coracina melaschistos
(Hodgson, 1836)The Black-winged Cuckooshrike or Smaller Grey Cuckoo-Shrike (Coracina melaschistos) is a species of cuckooshrike found in South to Southeast Asia.
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Distribution
It is distributed from Northeast Pakistan through the lower Himalayan region (Uttaranchal, Nepal, Arunachal Pradesh and into the hills of NE Myanmar continuing to China and Southeast Asia. It winters in the foothills, occasionally longer distances (e.g. Kerala).
Habitat: open forest, groves, singly or in pairs.
Description
A medium sized, dark cuckoo-shrike with unbarred, grey underparts.
- Male: dark grey above; contrasting black wings and tail. Wide white feather tips on underside of tail.
- Female: Palers with faint barring on underside[2]
Call: Loud twit twit to we, descending in scale.
Diet: mainly invertebrates.
Nests in tree.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2009). "Coracina melaschistos". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/146826. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
- ^ Grewal, Bikram; Bill Harvey and Otto Pfister (2002). Photographic guide to birds of India. Periplus editions / Princeton University Press. p. 257.
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on Banyan Ficus benghalensis at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.
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on Banyan Ficus benghalensis at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.
Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Campephagidae
- Birds of Nepal
- Birds of Pakistan
- Birds of India
- Birds of Bangladesh
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