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ShrublandCup nestMedium · 65 g
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The yellow-billed shrike is 32 cm (13 in) with a long, graduating tail and short wings. The adult has mottled brown upperparts and streaked buff underparts. It has a brown eye mask and a rufous wing patch, and the bill is yellow. Sexes are largely similar, but females have maroon patches on the flanks, while males have rufous parches; these patches are only visible when the bird is in flight, displaying, engaging in territorial disputes, or preening. Immature birds show buff fringes to the wing feathers. The legs and feet are black, and the beak is yellow, even in juveniles.
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When to see the Yellow-billed Shrike
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Yellow-billed Shrike
The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 2 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 Chad, South Sudan.
About the Yellow-billed Shrike
The yellow-billed shrike is a large passerine bird in the shrike family. It is sometimes known as the long-tailed shrike, but this invites confusion with the long-tailed shrike, Lanius schach, of tropical southern Asia. It is the only species placed in the genus Corvinella. The yellow-billed shrike is a common resident breeding bird in tropical Africa from Senegal eastwards to Uganda and locally in westernmost Kenya. It frequents forest and other habitats with trees.
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Easily confused with
Burmese ShrikeLanius collurioidesThe Burmese shrike is a species of bird in the family Laniidae.
Long-tailed FiscalLanius cabanisiLike many shrike species the appearance of the adults is similar between the sexes but strikingly different in juvenile birds.
Tiger ShrikeLanius tigrinusIt is a fairly small, stocky shrike, 17–19 cm long.
Side by side: Long-tailed Fiscal vs Yellow-billed Shrike · Tiger Shrike vs Yellow-billed Shrike
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