white-breasted cuckooshrike

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| name = White-breasted cuckooshrike

| image = Coracina pectoralis, Groenkloof NR.jpg

| image_caption = In Groenkloof Nature Reserve

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Ceblepyris pectoralis |volume=2016 |page=e.T22706538A94075734 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706538A94075734.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| genus = Ceblepyris

| species = pectoralis

| authority = (Jardine & Selby, 1828)

| synonyms = Coracina pectoralis

}}

The white-breasted cuckooshrike (Ceblepyris pectoralis) is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae.

It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and dry savanna. It is insectivorous.{{Cite report |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/6041100 |title=Impact of surface coal mining and reclamation on the hydrogeology at Iowa Coal Project Demonstration Mine No. 1, Mahaska County, Iowa. [MS thesis] |last=Stangl |first=D.W. |date=1979-07-01 |publisher=Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)|doi=10.2172/6041100 }}