Boubous and Gonoleks
Laniarius
Laniarius is a genus of brightly coloured, carnivorous passerine birds commonly known as boubous or gonoleks. Not to be confused with the similar-sounding genus Lanius, they were formerly classed with the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, but they and related genera are now considered sufficiently distinctive to be separated from that group as the bush-shrike family Malaconotidae.
22 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 22 known species
Southern Boubou
speciesLaniarius ferrugineus
Crimson-breasted Gonolek
speciesLaniarius atrococcineus
Tropical Boubou
speciesLaniarius major
Yellow-crowned Gonolek
speciesLaniarius barbarus
Slate-colored Boubou
speciesLaniarius funebris
Black-headed Gonolek
speciesLaniarius erythrogaster
Swamp Boubou
speciesLaniarius bicolor
Lühder's Bushshrike
speciesLaniarius luehderi
Papyrus Gonolek
speciesLaniarius mufumbiri
Ethiopian Boubou
speciesLaniarius aethiopicus
Zanzibar Boubou
speciesLaniarius sublacteus
Yellow-breasted Boubou
speciesLaniarius atroflavus
Red-naped Bushshrike
speciesLaniarius ruficeps
Lowland Sooty Boubou
speciesLaniarius leucorhynchus
Fülleborn's Boubou
speciesLaniarius fuelleborni
Turati's Boubou
speciesLaniarius turatii
Willard's Sooty Boubou
speciesLaniarius willardi
Braun's Bushshrike
speciesLaniarius brauni
Western Boubou
speciesLaniarius poensis
Albertine Boubou
speciesLaniarius holomelas
Gabela Bushshrike
speciesLaniarius amboimensis
Coastal Boubou
speciesLaniarius nigerrimus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 8206.