Turati's Boubou (Laniarius turatii)

Other Names (World)
Turati's Boubou, Turati's Bush-shrike, Turati's Bellshrike

Family
Malaconotidae (Bush-shrikes)

Size
23 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Verreaux, 1858)

Habitat
Well wooded savanna, grassland savanna with scattered trees, rural gardens.

Range (Guide)

Guinea (B), Guinea-bissau (B), Sierra Leone (B).

Guinea-Bissau south to Sierra Leone.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (9)...)

Turati's Boubou (Laniarius turatii) [XC24968]
by Bram Piot from near Bumbani, Sierra Leone (duet, song)

Turati's Boubou (Laniarius turatii) [XC781661]
by Brendan Sloan from Golf Course, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Ethiopian Boubou (Laniarius aethiopicus) and closely allied also with Southern Boubou (Laniarius ferrugineus), Zanzibar Boubou (Laniarius sublacteus) and Swamp Boubou (Laniarius bicolor), all previously treated as a superspecies and sometimes even as a single species. Has been treated as a subspecies of Ethiopian Boubou (Laniarius aethiopicus), but the two overlap in range in a tiny area around Bafodia, in northern Sierra Leone (formerly forested, and may have separated the two), where they do not react to each other, even though voices very similar.

References
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