Beautiful bushshrike is a wonderful bird of the Malaconotidae family.
It is enough to see one to understand why this bird is recognized as one of the most brilliantly attractive forest birds.
Beautiful bushshrike (Telophorus viridis) is a bird of the Malaconotidae family.
These are amazing birds with an olive back, a scarlet neck and a black stripe on the chest.
The coloring is very different: the abdomen is yellow, the abdomen is olive-green.
The female can be distinguished from the male in a narrower strip than that of the male.
Minors have an olive-green look with a yellow neck, they do not have beautiful colorful lower parts of the body that adults have.
These birds are found only in Angola, the Republic of Congo.
Therefore, they are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Zambia, coastal areas of Kenya and Tanzania.
Bushshrike love to live in shrubs or open forests.
And hunt them from a favorite point of view in the bushes.
So, in the wedding period, frail nests are erected about a meter or two above the ground.
Mostly in prickly thickets, from twigs and roots.
Males and females hatch and take care of their babies, as well as about four eggs that are deposited.
Despite the serious predation, the magnificent bushshrike is listed in the red list of MSOP as the least dangerous species because of its extensive range.