Telophorus kupeensis Serle, 1951
Kupé bushshrike, Mount Kupe bush-shrike, Mount Kupé bush-shrike, Mount Kupé bush shrike, Serle's bushshrike, Kupé Mountain bush-shrike
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Chlorophoneus kupeensis Serle, 1951 (original combination)
Conservation Status
Last record: June 1951
Rediscovered in 1989
IUCN RedList status: Endangered
Distribution
western Cameroon
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Serle, William. (1951). A new species of shrike and a new race of apalis from West Africa. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 7: 41-43.
Other references:
Bannerman, David Armitage. (1953). The Birds of West and Equatorial Africa, 2 Volumes. Edinburgh & London: Oliver and Boyd. [volume 2, pp. 1195-1196]
BirdLife International. (2012). Telophorus kupeensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 10 July 2012.
Cohen, Callan and Mills, Michael. (2002). First photographs of Mount Kupé Bush-Shrike Telophorus kupeensis in the wild. African Bird Club 9(2): 94.
Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1999). First observations on the territorial song and display of the Kupe Bush Shrike Malaconotus kupeensis. Malimbus 21: 115-117.
Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (2004). On sexual dimorphism and vocal behaviour in the Mount Kupe Bush Shrike Malaconotus kupeensis. Malimbus 26(1-2): 32-34.
Dowsett-Lemaire, F. and Dowsett, R. J. (1998). Zoological survey of small mammals, birds and frogs in the Bakossi and Kupe Mountains, Cameroon.
Dowsett-Lemaire, F. and Dowsett, R. J. (1999). Survey of birds and amphibians on Mt Manenguba, Mt Nlonako, north Bakossi and around Kupe in 1988-99.
Dowsett-Lemaire, F. and Dowsett, R. J. (2000). Further biological surveys of Manenguba and Central Bakossi in March 2000, and an evaluation of the conservation importance of Manenguba, Bakossi, Kupe and Nlonako Mts, with special reference to birds.
Faucher, I. (1998). Annotated list of bird species observed in the Bakossi Mountains between March and November 1998.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]
Serle, William. (1954). A second contribution to the ornithology of the British Cameroons. Ibis 96(1): 47-80. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1954.tb04110.x