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What the Black-crowned Tchagra sounds like
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The black-crowned tchagra is a colourful and unmistakable species, 19–22 cm in length. It has a black crown and eye stripes separated by a broad white supercilium. The underparts are pale grey and the upperparts pale brown. The folded wings are chestnut and the tail is black, tipped white. The bill is black. Sexes are similar, but young birds have a brown cap and a pale yellow bill. There are 14 subspecies, varying in size and the colour of the back, underparts and eyestripe.
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When to see the Black-crowned Tchagra
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Black-crowned Tchagra
The map shades 46 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Black-crowned Tchagra
The black-crowned tchagra is a bushshrike. This family of passerine birds is closely related to the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, and was once included in that group.
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Easily confused with
Brown-crowned TchagraTchagra australisThe brown-crowned tchagra is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae.
Southern TchagraTchagra tchagraThe southern tchagra is 17–21 cm in length.
Three-streaked TchagraTchagra jamesiIt is a small tchagra, measuring 16–17 cm from bill tip to tail tip.
Side by side: Black-crowned Tchagra vs Southern Tchagra
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