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 LC    Yellow-billed Shrike* Id (Atlas):
    Corvinella corvina

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Yellow-billed Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike(!), Western Long-tailed Shrike(!)

Family
Laniidae (Shrikes)

Size
30 - 33 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shaw, 1809)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, dry savanna. From 500 - 2,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (50)...)

 
Yellow-billed Shrike (Corvinella corvina) [XC425320]
     by Sun Madakan from Tujering, Gambia (call)

 
Yellow-billed Shrike (Corvinella corvina) [XC317102]
     by Bram Piot from Guereo, Thi\u00e8s, Senegal (song)

Subspecies
Treated as congeneric with Magpie Shrike (Urolestes melanoleucus) on basis mainly of similarities in morphology (e.g. long tail), vocal communication patterns, and social behaviour co-operative breeding, gregariousness). Subspecies intergrade, and intermediate individuals exist. Subspecies caliginosa sometimes merged with affinis.

Proposed subspecies chapini (from Kavirondo, in Kenya) synonymized with affinis.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • corvina (Shaw, 1809)   -  Extreme southern Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia south to Guinea-Bissau and northern Guinea, east to Burkina Faso, south-western Niger and north-western Nigeria.
  • togoensis Neumann, 1900   -  Southern part of range from western Guinea and Sierra Leone east to central and eastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Central African Republic, southern Chad and western and central Sudan.
  • caliginosa Friedmann and Bowen, 1933   -  Southern Bahr el Ghazal (south-western Sudan).
  • affinis Hartlaub, 1857   -  Southern Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo, northern Uganda and western Kenya.



References
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Files:
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