Female © Sherry Lane
Male © Peder Svingen
Male © Nik Borrow
Female © Peder Svingen
+ 2
Male © Peter Kaestner

Pringle's Puffback Dryoscopus pringlii

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Identification

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A small bushshrike in which males and females are strikingly different. Males are black and gray on the upperparts, whitish below. Females are gray-brown on the upperparts, pale gray below. Local and generally uncommon in dry savanna and thornscrub. Usually in pairs. Similar to Black-backed and Northern Puffbacks, but noticeably smaller, with a pale base to the bill. The most common vocalization is an explosive, repeated “kweea,” but the species also gives scolding and ratcheting calls.

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