Species profile
Tropical Boubou
Laniarius aethiopicus
Quick answer
extreme eastern Sudan to Eritrea, Ethiopia, northwestern Somalia, and extreme northern Kenya
- Scientific name
- Laniarius aethiopicus
- Family
- Malaconotidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Laniarius
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Tropical Boubou in your journal
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Related species in Malaconotidae
- Black-backed Puffback (Dryoscopus cubla)
- Black-crowned Tchagra (Tchagra senegalus)
- Black-fronted Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus nigrifrons)
- Black-headed Gonolek (Laniarius erythrogaster)
- Bocage's Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus bocagei)
- Bokmakierie (Telophorus zeylonus)
- Braun's Bushshrike (Laniarius brauni)
- Brown-crowned Tchagra (Tchagra australis)