Helmet-shrikes (Prionopidae)
Retz’s Helmet-shrike (Prionops retzii) - HBW 14, p. 139
French: Bagadais de Retz
German: Dreifarben-Brillenwürger
Spanish: Prionopo de Retz
Other common names: Red-billed(!)/Black Helmet-shrike, Retz's Shrike, Retz's Red-billed Shrike/Helmet-shrike
Taxonomy: Prionops retzii Wahlberg, 1856, "ad flumen Doughe" = Okavango River, southern Africa.
Forms a superspecies, and conceivably conspecific, with P. gabela. Other proposed races are intermedius (described from Mwanza, S of L Victoria, in Tanzania), synonymized with tricolor, and neumanni (from Fanole, in Somalia), synonymized with graculinus. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- nigricans ( Neumann, 1899) - Angola (except N & extreme S), NW Zambia and SE DRCongo.
- graculinus Cabanis, 1868 - S Somalia, Kenya and NE Tanzania.
- retzii Wahlberg, 1856 - extreme S Angola (S Huíla and probably Cubango) and S Zambia S to N Namibia, N & E Botswana, Zimbabwe and N South Africa.
- tricolor G. R. Gray, 1864 - W & S Tanzania and S & E Zambia S to Malawi, Mozambique, NE South Africa and E Swaziland.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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An adult perched in a tree.
Locality Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo Province, South Africa (ssp retzii)
Carmelo López 12 December 2010 1 year ago 3.2 -
Adult in tree
Locality Itulu Hill Forest Reserve, Tanzania
Jason Anderson 28 January 2011 1 year ago 2.5 -
A bird in a tree
Locality Mkuze Game Reserve, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa
Robert Wynands 16 October 2007 2 years ago 1
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