The Slate-Coloured Boubou (Laniarius funebris) is an east African bird.

The Slate-Coloured Boubou is dark-grey all over, with darker grey upperparts and lighter grey underparts. It has a dark patch around its eye, with white eye-rings. Its beak is dark grey.

Slate-Coloured Boubou

It grows to 20 centimetres (8 inches) tall.

It prefers tropical and subtropical forests, dry savannahs, and shrublands.

The female Slate-Coloured Boubou lays 2-3 eggs in a nest in a shrub or tree.

Photographer: Martina Nicolls

Martina Nicolls: SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM