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Bokmakierie - Wikipedia

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Bokmakierie

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Malaconotidae
Genus:	Telophorus
Species:	T. zeylonus
Binomial name
*Telophorus zeylonus* (Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms
Turdus zeylonus Linnaeus, 1766 Malaconotus zeylonus (Linnaeus, 1766)

The bokmakierie (Telophorus zeylonus) is a bushshrike. This family of passerine birds is closely related to the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, and was once included in that group. This species is endemic to southern Africa, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, with an isolated population in the mountains of eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique.

It is a species of open habitats, including karoo scrub, fynbos and parks and gardens in urban areas. The bulky cup nest is constructed in a hedge, scrub or tree fork. The 2–6, usually three, red-brown or lilac-blotched greenish-blue eggs are incubated by both sexes for about 16 days to hatching, with another 18 days to fledging.

The adult bokmakierie is a 22–23 cm long bird with olive-green upperparts and a conspicuous bright yellow tip to the black tail. The head is grey with a yellow supercilium, and the strong bill has a hooked upper mandible. The underparts are bright yellow with a broad black collar between the throat and breast, which continues up the neck sides through the eye to the bill. The legs and feet are blue-grey. The sexes are similar, but juveniles are a dull grey-green below, and lack the black gorget.

There are four subspecies, differing mainly in colour shade and size. Although the species as a whole is not threatened, the isolated dark subspecies restrictus in the Chimanimani Mountains numbers only about 400 birds.

The bokmakierie has a range of loud whistles and calls, often given by a pair in antiphonal duet, but the most typical is the one that gives this species its name, bok-bok-mak-kik. Levaillant called it bacbakiri based on the local name derived from its call.^[2] The Dutch settlers called it bokmakierie.^[3]^[4]

Unlike the true shrikes, which perch conspicuously in the open, the bokmakierie is shy and skulking. This bird has a typical shrike diet of insects, small lizards, snakes, small birds and frogs. It is preyed upon itself by snakes, mongooses, and large shrikes like the northern fiscal and southern boubou.

References

^ BirdLife International (2016). "Telophorus zeylonus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22707629A94132547. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22707629A94132547.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^ Le Vaillant, François (1799). Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique. Vol. 2. p. 65.
^ Newton, Alfred (1896). A dictionary of birds. London: Adam and Charles Black. p. 26.
^ Pettman, Charles, ed. (1913). Africanderisms : a glossary of South African colloquial words and phrases and of place and other names. London: Longmans, Green and Co. p. 43.

Tony Harris and Kim Franklin, Shrikes & Bush Shrikes (Christopher Helm, 2000) ISBN 0-691-07036-9
Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton, SASOL Birds of Southern Africa (Struik 2002) ISBN 1-86872-721-1

External links

Bokmakierie - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

Taxon identifiers
Telophorus zeylonus	Wikidata: Q891225 Wikispecies: Telophorus zeylonus ADW: Telophorus_zeylonus Avibase: D194C523F618B764 BirdLife: 22707629 BOW: bokmak1 CoL: 558SK eBird: bokmak1 GBIF: 2484853 iNaturalist: 8188 IRMNG: 10978153 ITIS: 563348 IUCN: 22707629 NCBI: 272867 Observation.org: 75836 Open Tree of Life: 672867 Xeno-canto: Telophorus-zeylonus

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