Black-headed Gonolek (Laniarius erythrogaster)

Other Names (World)
Black-headed Gonolek, Abyssinian Gonolek, Red-bellied Gonolek, Black-headed Bush-shrike, Barbary Shrike

Family
Malaconotidae (Bush-shrikes)

Size
21 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cretzschmar, 1829)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland.

Range (Guide)

Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

North-eastern Nigeria, southern Chad, northern and central Cameroon (south to Adamawa Plateau) and northern Central African Republic east to eastern Sudan, western Eritrea and western Ethiopia, south to eastern DRCongo, northern Tanzania and western Kenya; also in south-eastern DRCongo (Lualaba valley from about Kabalo south to L Kisale and Bukama).

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 (47)...)

Black-headed Gonolek (Laniarius erythrogaster) [XC810738]
by Marc de Bont from Gem West (near Imbo), Rangwe, Homa Bay County, Kenya (call, song)

Black-headed Gonolek (Laniarius) [XC469199]
by isaac kilusu from Hippo Point, Kisumu, Kisumu County, Kenya (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Crimson-breasted Gonolek (Laniarius atrococcineus) and Black-headed Gonolek (Laniarius erythrogaster) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include erythrogaster as a subspecies of Crimson-breasted Gonolek (Laniarius atrococcineus).

Was formerly held to compose a superspecies with Crimson-breasted Gonolek (Laniarius atrococcineus), Yellow-crowned Gonolek (Laniarius barbarus) and Papyrus Gonolek (Laniarius mufumbiri), some authors including Yellow-breasted Boubou (Laniarius atroflavus) in this group. Recent molecular-genetic studies indicate that this species is sufficiently closely related to Yellow-crowned Gonolek (Laniarius barbarus) for the two to be regarded as a superspecies, that Papyrus Gonolek (Laniarius mufumbiri) and Yellow-breasted Boubou (Laniarius atroflavus) are a sister-group in same lineage, and that the four are only distantly related to Crimson-breasted Gonolek (Laniarius atrococcineus).

References
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