Trillers and Allies
Lalage
The trillers are a group of passerine birds belonging to the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae partially making up the genus Lalage. Their name come from the loud trilling calls of the males. There are about 12 species that usually exist in southern Asia and Australasia with a number of species in Pacific islands. They feed mainly on insects and fruit. They build a neat cup-shaped nest high in trees.
Trillers are fairly small birds, about 15 to 20 cm long. They are mainly black, grey and white in colour.
20 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 20 known species
Varied Triller
speciesLalage leucomela
White-winged Triller
speciesLalage tricolor
Pied Triller
speciesLalage nigra
Black-winged Cuckooshrike
speciesLalage melaschistos
Black-headed Cuckooshrike
speciesLalage melanoptera
White-shouldered Triller
speciesLalage sueurii
Lesser Cuckooshrike
speciesLalage fimbriata
Polynesian Triller
speciesLalage maculosa
Long-tailed Triller
speciesLalage leucopyga
Indochinese Cuckooshrike
speciesLalage polioptera
Rufous-bellied Triller
speciesLalage aurea
Black-browed Triller
speciesLalage atrovirens
White-rumped Triller
speciesLalage leucopygialis
Mauritius Cuckooshrike
speciesLalage typica
Biak Triller
speciesLalage leucoptera
Black-and-white Triller
speciesLalage melanoleuca
Réunion Cuckooshrike
speciesLalage newtoni
White-browed Triller
speciesLalage moesta
Samoan Triller
speciesLalage sharpei
Mussau Triller
speciesLalage conjuncta
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 8378.