Bush-shrikes (Malaconotidae)
Black-headed Gonolek (Laniarius erythrogaster) - HBW 14, p. 111
French: Gonolek à ventre rouge
German: Scharlachwürger
Spanish: Bubú Cabecinegro
Other common names: Abyssinian/Red-bellied Gonolek, Black-headed Bush-shrike, Barbary Shrike
Taxonomy: Lanius erythrogaster Cretzschmar, 1829, Kordofan, Sudan.
Was formerly held to compose a superspecies with L. atrococcineus, L. barbarus and L. mufumbiri, some authors including L. atroflavus in this group. Recent molecular-genetic studies indicate that this species is sufficiently closely related to L. barbarus for the two to be regarded as a superspecies, that L. mufumbiri and L. atroflavus are a sister-group in same lineage, and that the four are only distantly related to L. atrococcineus. Monotypic.
Distribution: NE Nigeria, S Chad, N & C Cameroon (S to Adamawa Plateau) and N Central African Republic E to E Sudan, W Eritrea and W Ethiopia, S to E DRCongo, N Tanzania and W Kenya; also in SE DRCongo (Lualaba valley from about Kabalo S to L Kisale and Bukama).
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A bird in a tree, singing Locality Paraa Safari Lodge, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 28 August 2006 6 years ago 25 sec 4.8 -
A bird foraging on the ground Locality Masaka, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 14 September 2006 5 years ago 44 sec 4.4 -
bird rooming around Locality Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Daniêl Jimenez 23 September 2010 2 years ago 31 sec 4 -
A bird on a bush singing and flying away Locality Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 4 September 2006 6 years ago 10 sec 3.7 -
A bird singing from a tree top Locality Mweya Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 4 September 2006 6 years ago 29 sec 3
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A perched bird
Locality Mabamba Wetland, Uganda
Krzysztof Blachowiak 12 February 2011 35 weeks ago 4.2 -
A bird in a scrub
Locality Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
Krzysztof Blachowiak 15 February 2011 35 weeks ago 3.6 -
Adult in tree
Locality Kibungo, East Province, Rwanda
Jason Anderson 22 November 2009 2 years ago 3.5 -
Flitting between bushes
Locality Juba, Central Equatoria State, South Sudan
Smoghead 17 November 2012 19 weeks ago 3.2 -
This picture was also taken in Dindir national Park and Bio sphere reserve
Locality Dinder National Park, Sudan
Abubakr Mohammad 2 March 2013 9 weeks ago 3 -
I too this picture near a water pond inside the bio shpere reserve.
Locality Dinder National Park, Sudan
Abubakr Mohammad 2 March 2013 9 weeks ago 3
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A bird calling. Locality Paraa Safari Lodge, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 28 August 2006 19 weeks ago 4
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