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The hook-billed vanga (Vanga curvirostris) has a shorter bill with a hook at the end of it, white head with a black patch running from the each eye to the back of the head, a white belly, black back, black wings with white bands.

Call:
S1
Vanga curvirostris
P2

Juvenile Vanga eats a chameleon
P3
.8Mb
V1
1.2Mb
V2
The juvenile carefully wedges the chameleon where a twig leaves the branch
and pulls against it.
Langrand, Olivier; 1990: Guide to the Birds of Madagascar, Yale University Press
Sinclair, I & Langrand, O.; 1998: Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands, Struik