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Black-headed Gonolek (Laniarius erythrogaster)

Black-headed Gonolek
Photo: Photo by and (C)2007 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Black-headed Gonolek

The black-headed gonolek (Laniarius erythrogaster) is a species of bird in the family Malaconotidae. It is found in the African countries of Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

Source: Black-headed gonolek on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Black-headed Gonolek. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (0:20) via xeno-canto.org/380108, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda · xeno-canto lists 55 recordings for this species in total.

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