White-headed vanga

White-headed vanga

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Vangidae
Genus:	Artamella W.L. Sclater, 1924
Species:	A. viridis
Binomial name
*Artamella viridis* (Müller, 1776)

The white-headed vanga (Artamella viridis) is a species of bird in the Vangidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Artamella.^[2] It is endemic to Madagascar,^[1] where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.^[3]

References

1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Artamella viridis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
↑ "ITIS Report: Artamella". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
↑ "Artamella viridis". International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 September 2014.

Vangas (order: Passeriformes · family: Vangidae)

Genus	Species

Calicalicus	Red-tailed vanga Red-shouldered vanga

Schetba	Rufous vanga

Vanga	Hook-billed vanga

Xenopirostris	Lafresnaye's vanga Van Dam's vanga Pollen's vanga

Falculea	Sickle-billed vanga

Artamella	White-headed vanga

Leptopterus	Chabert vanga

Cyanolanius	Blue vanga (including Comoro blue vanga)

Oriolia	Bernier's vanga

Euryceros	Helmet vanga

Tylas	Tylas vanga

Hypositta	Nuthatch vanga (or coral-billed nuthatch-vanga)

Newtonia	Dark newtonia Common newtonia Archbold's newtonia Red-tailed newtonia

Mystacornis	Crossley's vanga

Pseudobias	Ward's flycatcher

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