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Sri Lanka woodshrike, the Glossary

Index Sri Lanka woodshrike

The Sri Lanka woodshrike (Tephrodornis affinis) is a species of bird in the family Vangidae.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 6 relations: Bird, Common woodshrike, Edward Blyth, Family (biology), Sri Lanka, Vanga.

  2. Endemic birds of Sri Lanka
  3. Tephrodornis

Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Common woodshrike

The common woodshrike (Tephrodornis pondicerianus) is a species of bird found in Asia. Sri Lanka woodshrike and common woodshrike are Tephrodornis.

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Edward Blyth

Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Vanga

The family Vangidae (from vanga, Malagasy for the hook-billed vanga, Vanga curvirostris) comprises a group of often shrike-like medium-sized birds distributed from Asia to Africa, including the vangas of Madagascar to which the family owes its name.

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See also

Endemic birds of Sri Lanka

Tephrodornis

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_woodshrike

Also known as Ceylon Woodshrike, Tephrodornis affinis.