Emin's Shrike (Lanius gubernator)
About the Emin's Shrike
Emin's shrike (Lanius gubernator) is a species of passerine bird in the family Laniidae, the shrikes. This species has a scattered distribution across Africa from the Ivory Coast east to South Sudan and Uganda. Emin's shrike was first formally described in 1882 by the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub, with its type locality given as "Central Africa", later determined to be Langomeri in the Nile Province of Uganda by Shelley in 1912.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 3 recordings for this species: 3 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Ghana in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Brown ShrikeLanius cristatusrecording
- Bull-headed ShrikeLanius bucephalusrecording
- Great Grey ShrikeLanius excubitorrecording
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianusrecording
- Long-tailed FiscalLanius cabanisirecording
- Northern FiscalLanius humeralisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.