Red-billed helmetshrike


The red-billed helmetshrike or chestnut-bellied helmetshrike is a species of bird in the helmetshrike family, Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae.
It is found in West Africa, occurring in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo. In Central Africa it is replaced by the rufous-bellied helmet-shrike which is sometimes regarded as a subspecies of the chestnut-bellied Helmetshrike.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.