White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus anguitimens)

Other Names (World)
Southern White-crowned Shrike, White-crowned Shrike, Smith's White-crowned Shrike

Family
Laniidae (Shrikes)

Size
23 - 25 cm

First Described (Guide)
Smith, 1836

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A shrill, whistling 'kree, kree, kree'. Also bleating and harsh chattering.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (17)...)

Southern White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus anguitimens) [XC834314]
by Marc Anderson from Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana (call)

Southern White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus anguitimens) [XC348923]
by Oscar Campbell from Tutume, Central District, Botswana (call)

Subspecies
Genus formerly included with the helmet-shrikes (Prionopidae), which were at the time treated as a subfamily of Malaconotidae. However, recent studies suggest that it belongs with Laniidae. Forms a superspecies with Northern White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus ruppelli).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

anguitimens Smith, 1836 - South-western and southern Angola and northern and north-eastern Namibia east to Botswana (except south-west), extreme southern Zambia, central plateau of Zimbabwe, and northern South Africa (western Limpopo Province).
niveus Clancey, 1965 - South-eastern Zimbabwe and adjacent SW Mozambique south to north-eastern South Africa (eastern Limpopo south to extreme N KwaZulu-Natal) and north-eastern Swaziland.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus anguitimens) - 10 files

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