Taita fiscal

The Taita fiscal or Teita fiscal (Lanius dorsalis) is a member of the shrike family found in east Africa from southeastern South Sudan, southern Ethiopia, and western Somalia to northeastern Tanzania.

This is a fairly distinctive 21 cm (8.3 in)-long passerine with white underparts and a black crown, hindneck and wings.

It gives a jumbled mix of shrike-like whistles and buzzes, including a chwaa-pikerrek-chrrrr-yook pikechik song.

[3] The Taita fiscal is usually solitary and hunts insects and small vertebrates from an exposed perch or the tops of shrubs.

The nest is a twig and grass cup built in a thorn tree.