Ethiopian boubou

The Ethiopian boubou (Laniarius aethiopicus) is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. It is found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, northwest Somalia, and northern Kenya.

Ethiopian boubou
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Malaconotidae
Genus: Laniarius
Species:
L. aethiopicus
Binomial name
Laniarius aethiopicus
(JF Gmelin, 1789)
Synonyms

Laniarius ferrugineus aethiopicus (Gmelin, 1788)

Its natural habitat is moist savanna.

Its breast and belly are pinkish. It has a narrow wing stripe, extending across the median and larger wing coverts, and often a bit onto the secondary remiges. Outer tail feathers never have white tips.

Recent cladistic analysis of nDNA BRM15 intron-15 and mtDNA NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 and ATP synthase F0 subunit 6 sequence data indicates that the Ethiopian boubou is a polyphyletic cryptic species complex, which was once lumped with the tropical boubou, black boubou, and East Coast boubou.

A quill mite, Neoaulonastus malaconotus, has been identified as an ectoparasite of the species.[2] It belongs to the Syringophilinae, a mite subfamily known to infect several bushshrike species.

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Laniarius aethiopicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T104007160A94129399. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T104007160A94129399.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. Klimovičová, M.; Skoracki, M.; Njoroge, P.; Hromada, M. (April 2016). "Two New Species of the Family Syringophilidae (Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) Parasitising Bushshrikes (Passeriformes: Malaconotidae)". Journal of Parasitology. 102 (2): 187–192. doi:10.1645/15-870. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
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