White-crested Helmetshrike

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Vangidae

Genus

Prionops

eBird Code

whihel1

Subspecies (6)

• Prionops plumatus concinnatus

  central Cameroon eastward to southern Sudan, northern and western Ethiopia, Eritrea, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northern Uganda

• Prionops plumatus cristatus

  Eritrea, central and western Ethiopia, eastern South Sudan, eastern Uganda, and northwestern Kenya

• Prionops plumatus plumatus

  Senegal to northern Cameroon

• Prionops plumatus poliocephalus

  eastern Tanzania, Malawi, southern and eastern Zambia and Mozambique to eastern South Africa

• Prionops plumatus talacoma

  central and southern Kenya and Uganda to Angola, northern Namibia, northern and eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, and northeastern South Africa

• Prionops plumatus vinaceigularis

  Somalia, Ethiopia, eastern Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania