Red-billed helmetshrike

The red-billed helmetshrike or chestnut-bellied helmetshrike (Prionops caniceps) is a species of bird in the Vanga family, Vangidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.

Red-billed helmetshrike
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Vangidae
Genus:	Prionops
Species:	P. caniceps
Binomial name
Prionops caniceps (Bonaparte, 1850)

It is native to the Guinean Forests of West Africa. In Central Africa it is replaced by the rufous-bellied helmet-shrike (P. rufiventris) ; both are sometimes regarded as two subspecies of the "chestnut-bellied helmetshrike".

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.