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 LC    White-rumped Shrike* Id (Atlas):
    Eurocephalus ruppelli

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Northern White-crowned Shrike, White-rumped Shrike

Family
Laniidae (Shrikes)

Size
21 cm

First Described (Guide)
Bonaparte, 1853

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,600 m, occasionally to 2,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

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

 
Northern White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus ruppelli) [XC107290]
     by Thibaut Chansac from Grumeti Game Reserve, Mara, Tanzania (call)

 
Northern White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus ruppelli) [XC239950]
     by Peter Boesman from Ol Pajeta Conservancy, Laikipia, Kenya (call, song)

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 Southern White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus anguitimens). Subspecies erlangeri sometimes considered insufficiently differentiated, and species sometimes treated as monotypic.

Additional proposed subspecies are deckeni (described from Afgoi, in southern Somalia), which is subsumed in erlangeri, and fischeri (Ndjiri, west of Kilimanjaro, in northern Tanzania) and boehmi (Langenburg, north-east of L Malawi, in southern Tanzania), both synonymized with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • ruppelli Bonaparte, 1853   -  Extreme south-eastern Sudan, western part of southern Ethiopia, Kenya (except north-east) and northern and central Tanzania.
  • erlangeri Zedlitz, 1913   -  Central and south-eastern Ethiopia, north-eastern Kenya and extreme north-west, central and southern Somalia.



References
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Files:
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