The Bulo Burti Boubou (Laniarius liberatus) is a medium-sized passerine bird in the bushshrike family. It remains known only from central Somalia, 140 km inland in Hiiraan gobolka (region) near Buuloburde (Buulobarde, Bulo Burti) on the Shebelle River. The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. ... Image File history File links Status_iucn3. ... . ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Animalia redirects here. ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... “Aves” redirects here. ... Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ... Genus Nilaus Dryoscopus Tchagra Laniarius Rhodophoneus Telophorus Malaconotus The bushshrikes are smallish passerine bird species. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ... “Aves” redirects here. ... Genus Nilaus Dryoscopus Tchagra Laniarius Rhodophoneus Telophorus Malaconotus The bushshrikes are smallish passerine bird species. ... Hiiraan (Somali: Hiiraan; Arabic: ‎ ) is an administrative region (gobolka) in central Somalia. ... Gobolka is a term for a subnational entity in Somalia. ... The Shebelle River (with numerous spelling variations, including Shabele and Shabell, sometimes with Wabe or Webi prepended, Shabeelle in Somalia) begins in the highlands of Ethiopia, and then flows southeast into Somalia towards Mogadishu. ...

This species is known from a single individual trapped in 1988, and was described using blood and feather samples to provide a DNA sequence specimen. Unlike the usual practice, the bird was not killed as a type; it was released back into the wild in 1990 because the scientists researching it felt that the species was very rare. The species name of liberatus ("the liberated one") was given due to this fact. It is critically endangered and it was not found during searches in 1989 and 1990. It resembles the Red-naped Bush-shrike L. ruficeps but has no red nape, is black, not grey, on the mantle, and is washed buffy-yellow on throat and breast. part of a DNA sequence A DNA sequence (sometimes genetic sequence) is a succession of letters representing the primary structure of a real or hypothetical DNA molecule or strand, The possible letters are A, C, G, and T, representing the four nucleotide subunits of a DNA strand (adenine, cytosine, guanine... In scientific classification, a type is a specimen or description that corresponds to a taxon (a group of organisms), and helps to identify which organisms may be referred to with that name. ...

References

• BirdLife International (2004). Laniarius liberatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 10 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is critically endangered

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External links

• Birdlife International Factsheet