Alternative name: Mountain Boubou
Includes: Albertine Boubou or Albertine Sooty Boubou
- Laniarius poensis
Identification
Length 18-20 cm.
An all-black Boubou.
Distribution
Tropical Africa: Highland forests of the Albertine Rift, south-western Cameroon and adjacent Nigeria, and the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
Some authors elevate subspecies holomelas as "Albertine Boubou" or "Albertine Sooty Boubou", L. holomelas.
Taxonomy
Clements recognises the following subspecies [1]:
In addition, some authors include subspecies L. p. holomelas: "Albertine Boubou" of the Albertine Rift Mountains (Eastern DRC, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi) in this species.
Habitat
Montane forests, forest edge and clearings in forest.
Behaviour
A "skulker"; keeps to undergrowth and thicket.
Vocalisation
A variety of calls, usually in duet.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Mountain Sooty Boubou. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Mountain_Sooty_Boubou
