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Cuckoo-shrikes, minivets, trillers
Order:
Passeriformes
Family: Campephagidae
84 species
Forests of Africa, Asia, Australia;
14-40 cm; sometimes strongly barred below; bill heavy, hooked; tail typically graduated, long; spine-like rump feathers; legs short;
Feed on insects, fruits;
Males like females or more brightly colored; 2-5 eggs; generally monogamous with biparental care(?).
Large Cuckoo-Shrike Coracina novaehollandiae singing
"Did organochlorine pesticide use cause declines in Mauritian forest birds?. Safford-R-J. Jones-C-G. [Biodiversity and Conservation. 6 (10). 1997. 1445-1451.]
"The conservation status of the restricted-range lowland birds of Buru, Indonesia. Marsden-Stuart-J. Jones-Martin-J. Linsley-Mark-D. Mead-Claire. Hounsome-Mike-V. [Bird Conservation International. 7 (3). 1997. 213-233.]
"Distribution studies on the forest-living native passerines of Mauritius. Safford-R-J. [Biological Conservation. 80 (2). 1997. 189-198.]
"Some notes on the birds of Bhutan. Moet-F-J. [Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 93 (2). 1996. 299-300.]
"Black redstart Phoenicurus ochruros (Gmelin) and Southern Small Minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomesu (Linn.) new bird records to Point Calimere wildlife sanctuary. Balachandran-S. [Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 91 (2). 1994. 322- 323.]
(Image taken from Sinclair, Ian, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton. Illustrated Guide to the Birds of Southern Africa. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1993)