Purple-throated Cuckooshrike

What the Purple-throated Cuckooshrike sounds like

Recorded by Kileo Jumah · Song · Endoro cave trail,Karatu,NCA, Tanzania · CC0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Purple-throated Cuckooshrike

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 Purple-throated Cuckooshrike

The map shades 12 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Guinea.

About the Purple-throated Cuckooshrike

The purple-throated cuckooshrike is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Petit's CuckooshrikeCampephaga petitiPetit's cuckooshrike is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. Red-shouldered CuckooshrikeCampephaga phoeniceaThe red-shouldered cuckooshrike is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. Black CuckooshrikeCampephaga flavaThe black cuckooshrike is a species of bird in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae.