The Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike lives in forest from West Africa through the Congo Basin. Males are blue-black with a red shoulder patch; females are olive with barred white underparts.
Males are glossy blue-black with a bright scarlet shoulder patch. Females are olive-green with yellow-fringed wings and dark bars on the white underparts.
It stays under canopy cover, often feeding in pairs or family parties. It gleans caterpillars and large insects and sometimes makes short flycatching sorties.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.