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Northern White-crowned Shrike

northern white-crowned shrike, white-rumped shrike, alcaudon culiblanco, eurocéphale de ruppell, birds of Kenya, birds of africa, Nicolas Urlacher, wildlife of kenya, Eurocephalus ruppelli
Names, conservation status and distribution
northern white-crowned shrike, white-rumped shrike, alcaudon culiblanco, eurocéphale de ruppell, birds of Kenya, birds of africa, Nicolas Urlacher, wildlife of kenya, Eurocephalus ruppelli
northern white-crowned shrike, white-rumped shrike, alcaudon culiblanco, eurocéphale de ruppell, birds of Kenya, birds of africa, Nicolas Urlacher, wildlife of kenya, Eurocephalus ruppelli

northern white-crowned shrike, white-rumped shrike, alcaudon culiblanco, eurocéphale de ruppell, birds of Kenya, birds of africa, Nicolas Urlacher, wildlife of kenya, Eurocephalus ruppelli
northern white-crowned shrike, white-rumped shrike, alcaudon culiblanco, eurocéphale de ruppell, birds of Kenya, birds of africa, Nicolas Urlacher, wildlife of kenya, Eurocephalus ruppelli
northern white-crowned shrike, white-rumped shrike, alcaudon culiblanco, eurocéphale de ruppell, birds of Kenya, birds of africa, Nicolas Urlacher, wildlife of kenya, Eurocephalus ruppelli

The northern white-crowned shrike or white-rumped shrike (Eurocephalus ruppelli), is a shrike found in dry thornbush, semi-desert, and open acacia woodland in east Africa from south eastern South Sudan and southern Ethiopia to Tanzania.

The northern white-crowned shrike is gregarious, occurring in groups of up 12 birds. It hunts from an exposed perch, feeding mainly on large insects, usually taken from the ground. It also will feed from the backs of large mammals, like an oxpecker, and occasionally will eat fruit which has fallen to the ground.

The neat thick-walled cup nest is constructed from grass and spider webs in a horizontal tree fork 4–6 metres above the ground. The two to four white or lilac eggs are blotched with grey, purple or brown. It is likely that cooperative breeding occurs, given the gregarious habits of this species and the known cooperative breeding of the closely related southern white-crowned shrike.

 

Source : Wikipedia