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Illustration of a cuckoo-shrike (genus Campephaga), a dark-feathered bird perched on a thorny branch, showing its sleek body, rounded head, and slender beak. A Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae) perched at the top of an olive tree against a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.
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Illustration of a cuckoo-shrike (genus Campephaga), a dark-feathered bird perched on a thorny branch, showing its sleek body, rounded head, and slender beak.
Cuckoo-shrike (Campephaga)

Cuckoo-shrike

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Cuckoo-shrike, any of several Old World songbirds of the family Campephagidae (q.v.; order Passeriformes). In the genus Coracina (including Edolisoma), found from Africa to Pacific islands, the plumage is gray, often with cuckoolike barring or a shrikelike mask (sexes similar); many of the 41 species are known as graybirds. An example is the large, or black-faced, cuckoo-shrike (C. novaehollandiae), about 30 cm (12 inches) long, of India and China to Australasia. In Campephaga, mainly an...

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