Lowland Sooty Boubou

When to see the Lowland Sooty Boubou

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Lowland Sooty Boubou

The map shades 12 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Togo.

About the Lowland Sooty Boubou

The lowland sooty boubou, also known as the sooty boubou, is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. It is native to the African tropical rainforest. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

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Easily confused with

Yellow-breasted BoubouLaniarius atroflavusThe yellow-breasted boubou is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. Fülleborn's BoubouLaniarius fuelleborniFülleborn's boubou is a medium-sized boubou, growing to a length of 18 to 20 cm (7 to 8 in). Willard's Sooty BoubouLaniarius willardiThe species was first described in 2010, based on five specimens, all collected by the Field Museum of Natural History and originally identified as the Mountain sooty boubou (L. poensis).