Here’s another family of birds you’ve never heard of: the Bushshrikes, the Malaconotidae. shrike-like birds that are endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. Some of the common names – Brubru, Boubou and Tchagra, for example – sound like some ornithologist’s idea of a joke. Bushshrikes, like the more familiar North American shrikes, are predators. All have evolved…