Bokmakierie

When to see the Bokmakierie

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Bokmakierie

The map shades 8 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Bokmakierie

The bokmakierie 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. This species is endemic to southern Africa, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, with an isolated population in the mountains of eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique.

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Easily confused with

Gorgeous BushshrikeTelophorus viridisThe gorgeous bushshrike is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. Doherty's BushshrikeTelophorus dohertyiA strikingly coloured, medium-sized bush shrike which in the adults is mostly green with a bright red forehead and throat, a broad black breast band and a bright lemon-yellow belly, the tail is black.