Passeriformes

Helmet-shrikes (Prionopidae)

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• Medium-sized passerines with squat, hunched appearance, broad rounded wings, hook-tipped bill, tarsus scutellated on both sides and front, most species crested; plumage largely black, white, grey and brown, most with colourful eyewattles.
• Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Forest, woodland and savanna.
• 1 genus, 8 species, 19 taxa.
• 2 species threatened; none extinct since 1600.