Red-billed Helmetshrike

Prionops caniceps

Near Threatened · IUCN Red List

NTNear ThreatenedInvertebratesForestCup nestSmall · 48 g

When to see the Red-billed Helmetshrike

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Red-billed Helmetshrike

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 9 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Cameroon, Gabon.

About the Red-billed Helmetshrike

The red-billed helmetshrike or chestnut-bellied helmetshrike is a species of bird in the Vanga family, Vangidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.

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