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Ashy Cuckoo-shrike Coracina cinerea
Described by: Müller, Statius (1776)
Alternate common name(s): Madagascar Cuckooshrike, Ashy Cuckooshrike, Madagascar Cuckoo-shrike, Comoros Cuckooshrike ...
Barred Cuckoo-shrike - profile
Scientific name: Coracina lineata
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Description ...
Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina melaschistos) is a common resident in Himalayan foothills and north-east India. Size: 24 cm ...
Cuckoo-shrikes are not closely related to Cuckoos or Shrikes
Genus Coracina
Cuckoo-shrike, Black-faced Coracina novaehollandiae Found: Australia
Photographed by Dick Daniels ...
[edit] Cuckoo-shrikes
Order: Passeriformes Family: Campephagidae ...
The Yellow-eyed Cuckoo-Shrike
(Coracina lineata)
(27 cm long, Australia, New Zealand) ...
woodcreepers, ovenbirds, antbirds, tapaculos, cotingas, manakins, tyrant flycatchers, sharpbill, plantcutters, pittas, New Zealand wrens, asities, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows & martins, wagtails & pipits, cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, ...
The trip built quite a bird list:Yellow Oriole, Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike, Tree Martin, Brown-backed Honeyeater, Graceful Honeyeater, Helmeted Friarbird, Papuan Frogmouth, Figbird, Royal Spoonbill, Australian Grebe, Cattle Egret, Little Pied Grebe, ...
Family Campephagidae (cuckoo-shrikes)
Family Cinclosomatidae (quail-thrushes)
Family Colluricinclidae (shrike-thrushes and relatives) ...
Of the many characteristic birds may be mentioned Pycnonotidae or bulbuls, of which the Phyllornithinae are peculiar, Campephagidae or cuckoo-shrikes, Dicruridae or drongos, Nectariniidae or sunbirds; pheasants, together with Pavo and Gallus.
The Prionopidae and Malaconotidae are quite closely related to the Laniidae, and were formerly included in the shrike family. The cuckoo-shrikes are not closely related to the true shrikes.
 See also: Shrike, Cuckoo, Flycatcher, Kingfish, Kingfisher
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