Shrikes (Laniidae)
Northern White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus ruppelli) - HBW 13, p. 796
French: Eurocéphale de Rüppell
German: Rüppellwürger
Spanish: Alcaudón Culiblanco
Other common names: White-rumped Shrike
Taxonomy: Eurocephalus ruppelli [sic] Bonaparte, 1853, White Nile, Shoa, Ethiopia.
Genus formerly included with the helmet-shrikes (Prionopidae), which were at the time treated as a subfamily of Malaconotidae; recent studies, however, suggest that it belongs with Laniidae. Forms a superspecies with E. anguitimens. Race erlangeri sometimes considered insufficiently differentiated, and species sometimes treated as monotypic. Additional proposed races are deckeni (described from Afgoi, in S Somalia), which is subsumed in erlangeri, and fischeri (Ndjiri, W of Kilimanjaro, in N Tanzania) and boehmi (Langenburg, NE of L Malawi, in S Tanz.. View all taxonomy...
Genus formerly included with the helmet-shrikes (Prionopidae), which were at the time treated as a subfamily of Malaconotidae; recent studies, however, suggest that it belongs with Laniidae. Forms a superspecies with E. anguitimens. Race erlangeri sometimes considered insufficiently differentiated, and species sometimes treated as monotypic. Additional proposed races are deckeni (described from Afgoi, in S Somalia), which is subsumed in erlangeri, and fischeri (Ndjiri, W of Kilimanjaro, in N Tanzania) and boehmi (Langenburg, NE of L Malawi, in S Tanzania), both synonymized with nominate. Two subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- ruppelli Bonaparte, 1853 - extreme SE Sudan, W part of S Ethiopia, Kenya (except NE) and N & C Tanzania.
- erlangeri Zedlitz, 1913 - C & SE Ethiopia, NE Kenya and extreme NW, C & S Somalia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird perched in a tree, looking around, and eventually flying away and calling. Locality Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania (ssp ruppelli)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 16 February 2012 38 weeks ago 20 sec 4.7 -
one finishing of a large insect (big black wasp) Locality Yabelo, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (ssp erlangeri)
Martin Kennewell 2 November 2010 2 years ago 29 sec 4.6 -
A bird in a tree. Locality Afar Plains, Afar Region, Ethiopia
Josep del Hoyo 27 November 2005 7 years ago 40 sec 4.6 -
A bird in a tree, calling. Locality Afar Plains, Afar Region, Ethiopia
Josep del Hoyo 27 November 2005 7 years ago 15 sec 4.5 -
A bird perched on a low branch Locality Abijatta-Shalla National Park, Ethiopia
Keith Blomerley 12 April 2002 5 years ago 22 sec 4.2 -
An adult perched on a branch Locality Lotimor, Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan (ssp ruppelli)
Marc de Bont 2 June 2004 6 years ago 9 sec 3.6
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perching on dry scrub
Locality Negele Borana scrub, Negele Arsi, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Hector Ceballos-Lascurain 17 July 2009 23 weeks ago 4 -
An adult perched in a tree.
Locality Yabelo, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
David Beadle 31 January 2009 17 weeks ago 3.8 -
a bird perched in a bush
Locality Arba Minch, Ethiopia (ssp erlangeri)
Stefan Helming 21 May 2009 3 years ago 3.8 -
adult perched
Locality Awash National Park, Ethiopia
Marco Valentini 28 December 2012 17 weeks ago 3.5 -
a bird perched in a small tree
Locality Awash National Park, Ethiopia
Stefan Helming 12 December 2009 3 years ago 3.5 -
Perched in a thorn bush.
Locality Negele Boran, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Ken Havard 5 November 2011 1 year ago 3
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Low calls by a bird. Locality San Diego Zoo, San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA (United States)
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 19 June 2012 36 weeks ago 4 -
A bird calling. Locality Afar Plains, Afar Region, Ethiopia
Josep del Hoyo 28 November 2005 3 years ago 4
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