Yellow-billed shrike
| Yellow-billed shrike | |
|---|---|
| In the Gambia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Laniidae |
| Genus: | Corvinella Lesson, 1831 |
| Species: | C. corvina
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| Binomial name | |
| Corvinella corvina (Shaw, 1809)
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| Synonyms | |
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Lanius corvinus | |
The yellow-billed shrike (Corvinella corvina) 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.