Bush-shrikes (Malaconotidae)
White-tailed Shrike (Lanioturdus torquatus) - HBW 14, p. 122
French: Lanielle à queue blanche
German: Drosselwürger
Spanish: Laniotordo
Other common names: Chatshrike, Flycatcher Shrike
Taxonomy: Lanioturdus torquatus Waterhouse, 1838, Bull's Mouth Pass, Naukluft Mountains, Damaraland, Namibia.
Affinities uncertain. Originally thought to be an aberrant member of present family, with which it shares several cranial and limb-bone characters and is similar in various aspects of behaviour; has sometimes been placed with Old World flycatchers (Muscicapidae), and eggs resemble those of helmet-shrikes (Prionopidae). Plumage pattern and nest, however, strongly reminiscent of batises (Batis), and some structural characters, e.g. jaw musculature, shared with those and wattle-eyes (Platysteira), both in family Platysteiridae; recent molecular-genetic studies corroborate close rel.. View all taxonomy...
Affinities uncertain. Originally thought to be an aberrant member of present family, with which it shares several cranial and limb-bone characters and is similar in various aspects of behaviour; has sometimes been placed with Old World flycatchers (Muscicapidae), and eggs resemble those of helmet-shrikes (Prionopidae). Plumage pattern and nest, however, strongly reminiscent of batises (Batis), and some structural characters, e.g. jaw musculature, shared with those and wattle-eyes (Platysteira), both in family Platysteiridae; recent molecular-genetic studies corroborate close relationship with Batis, and the species is possibly better assigned to Platysteiridae (see HBW 11, page 164). Monotypic.
Distribution: SW Angola and NW & C Namibia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird perched in a bush Locality Spitzkoppe, Erongo Region, Namibia (Monotypic species)
Keith Blomerley 19 January 2007 4 years ago 22 sec 4.3
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On the ground.
Locality Erongo Region, Namibia (Monotypic species)
Fran Trabalon 24 November 2011 24 weeks ago 4.2 -
On the ground, dorsal view.
Locality Erongo Region, Namibia (Monotypic species)
Fran Trabalon 24 November 2011 24 weeks ago 4 -
A bird on a rock
Locality Rehoboth, Hardap Region, Namibia
Aleix Comas 19 August 2007 2 years ago 3
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Location - a hill top with dry forest in Klein Windhoek. A pair present Locality Windhoek, Khomas Region, Namibia
(Monotypic species)
Charles Hesse 11 November 2009 2 years ago 4
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