Slate-coloured Boubou (Laniarius funebris)

Other Names (World)
Slate-coloured Boubou, Slate-colored Boubou

Family
Malaconotidae (Bush-shrikes)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1863)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

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 (32)...)

Slate-colored Boubou (Laniarius funebris) [XC300403]
by Peter Boesman from Sof Omar, Ethiopia (call)

Slate-colored Boubou (Laniarius funebris) [XC444526]
by Frank Lambert from Kisongo, Arusha, Tanzania (song)

Subspecies
Recent molecular research indicates that this species constitutes a more recent branch within the genus than do Mountain Sooty Boubou (Laniarius poensis) and Fulleborn's Boubou (Laniarius fuelleborni) and far more recent one than Lowland Sooty Boubou (Laniarius leucorhynchus). Subspecies degener intergrades with nominate in coastal regions, southern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania (east of Mt Kilimanjaro).

Proposed subspecies atrocoeruleus (from north-eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia) synonymized with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

funebris (Hartlaub, 1863) - North-western Somalia and south through central Ethiopia to south-eastern Sudan, south-western and extreme eastern Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
degener Hilgert, 1912 - Central and southern Ethiopia and southern Somalia, south-eastern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania (east of Mt Kilimanjaro).

References
See References.

Files:

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