Common Woodshrike

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Common Woodshrike
at  Sindhrot in  Vadodara district of Gujarat, India.
at Sindhrot in Vadodara district of Gujarat, India.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Prionopidae
Genus: Tephrodornis
Species: T. pondicerianus
Binomial name
Tephrodornis pondicerianus
(Gmelin, 1789)

The Common Woodshrike (Tephrodornis pondicerianus) is a species in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae. The woodshrikes were formerly placed in the Campephagidae (cuckooshrikes) sometimes.

Molem, Goa, India Nov 1997
Molem, Goa, India Nov 1997


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