Many-colored Bushshrike

Chlorophoneus multicolor

(Gray, GR, 1845)

Family: Malaconotidae
Order: Passeriformes
Class: Aves
Phylum / Division: Chordata
Kingdom: Animalia

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Synonyms: Laniarius multicolor.

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Conservation status according to BirdLife International: Least Concern

Description

The many-colored bushshrike or many-coloured bushshrike (Chlorophoneus multicolor) is a species of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.

The black-fronted bushshrike (C. nigrifrons) of southern and eastern Africa is sometimes included in this species.

It is sparsely present across the African tropical rainforest.

C. m. multicolor (Gray, GR, 1845) — Sierra Leone to Cameroon;
C. m. batesi Sharpe, 1908 — southern Cameroon to western Uganda and northwestern Angola;
C. m. graueri (Hartert, 1908) — Albertine Rift montane forests.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Source: Wikipedia, article Chlorophoneus multicolor. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 17/07/2026.