Marsh Tchagra

When to see the Marsh Tchagra

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

Where to see the Marsh Tchagra

The map shades 21 countries with regular records, and 3 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Ethiopia, Guinea, South Sudan.

About the Marsh Tchagra

The marsh tchagra or blackcap bush-shrike is a species of passerine bird placed in the monotypic genus Bocagia in the family Malaconotidae. It is native to marshes in the tropics and subtropics of Africa. It is sometimes placed in the genus Tchagra.

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Easily confused with

Papyrus GonolekLaniarius mufumbiriThe papyrus gonolek is a medium-sized bush-shrike some 18 cm (7 in) long. Mountain Sooty BoubouLaniarius poensisThe mountain sooty boubou, western boubou or mountain boubou, is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. Sabine's PuffbackDryoscopus sabiniSabine's puffback, also known as the large-billed puffback, is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae.