helmetshrikes
prionopidae latin

The wood-shrikes (Tephrodornis) were often considered to be in this family but are probably closer to the helmetshrikes or bushshrikes.

They may be rather close to the diverse vangas but for the time being are placed in the Prionopidae with the helmetshrikes and woodshrikes.

It is almost certain the extinct Malagasy subspecies parasitised vangas, which are related to the helmetshrikes.

Prionopidae, helmetshrikes.

The typical helmetshrikes, Prionops, form a bird genus in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae.

It is often placed with the wattle-eyes and batises in the Platysteiridae family but may be more closely related to the helmetshrikes and woodshrikes.

This species' parasitism of the helmetshrikes may complement the similarly sized Black Cuckoo which exclusively parasitises bush shrikes.

A number of avian social predators exist, including the Harris Hawk, butcherbirds, three of four kookaburra species and many helmetshrikes.

It now appears that they, along with the woodshrikes and philentomas, are more closely related to the helmetshrikes, Prionopidae, and vangas, Vangidae.

Mid-20th century studies found some similarities between the Bourbon Crested Starling and the Prionopidae (helmetshrikes and woodshrikes).

They were formerly placed in the Campephagidae (cuckooshrikes) by some, as they are far more conventional in habitus than the rather bizarre typical helmetshrikes of genus Prionops.

Their relationship with other passerine groups is uncertain, but they seem closely related to some enigmatic African groups: the helmetshrikes (Prionops) and the shrike-flycatchers (Bias and Megabyas).

Also characteristic are Pittas, Bulbuls, Old World babblers, Cuckoo-shrikes, Drongos, Fantails, Flowerpecker, Helmetshrikes, Hornbill, Nuthatch, Orioles, Parrotbills, Shrikes, Sunbirds and Woodswallows.

The thick-billed cuckoo is a specialised brood parasite of helmetshrikes, being known to almost exclusive parasitise three species in the Red-billed and Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike in its eastern range and the Chestnut-bellied Helmetshrike in West Africa.

They may be rather close to the diverse vangas but for the time being are placed in the Prionopidae with the helmetshrikes and woodshrikes.

Tephrodornis is a bird genus in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, commonly known as the woodshrikes.

The typical helmetshrikes, Prionops, form a bird genus in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae.

At times it has been placed in the Prionopidae, the Cracticidae, the Artamidae or the Corvidae.

The Prionopidae and Malaconotidae are quite closely related to the Laniidae, and were formerly included in the shrike family.

The Necropsar bones, while indeed reminiscent of Fregilupus (and the Prionopidae), remind much more of a starling's though.

It now appears that they, along with the woodshrikes and philentomas, are more closely related to the helmetshrikes, Prionopidae, and vangas, Vangidae.

Mid-20th century studies found some similarities between the Bourbon Crested Starling and the Prionopidae (helmetshrikes and woodshrikes).

Long placed in the flycatcher family (Muscicapidae) when these were used as a "wastebin taxon", they are now tentatively assigned to the Prionopidae pending detailed study.

The Yellow-crested Helmetshrike (Prionops alberti) is a species of bird in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.

The Rufous-bellied Helmetshrike or Gabon Helmetshrike (Prionops rufiventris) is a passerine bird belonging to the helmetshrike family, Prionopidae.

Phylogenetically, an affiliation between the "Mascarene starlings" and either of the two Malagasy radiations - or the Prionopidae, for that matter - cannot be discounted as yet, in particular as no detailed comparisons seem to have ever been made.

Their bright contrasting plumage patterns, sexual dimorphism and feeding habits made their systematic position difficult to ascertain in early times, Richard Bowdler Sharpe placed them with the Prionopidae in 1879 while many considered them as some kind of aberrant thrush.

While an African origin of the "Mascarene starlings" is thus more likely than a South Asian one, even this does not help much to narrow their relationships, as all possible relatives are native to Africa, and in case of the Sturnidae and Prionopidae also to South Asia.