The yellow-billed shrike is a common resident breeding bird in tropical Africa from Senegal eastwards to Uganda and locally in westernmost Kenya.

The yellow-billed shrike is 32 cm (13 in) with a long, graduating tail and short wings.

It is present in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, and Uganda.

[2] This is a conspicuous and gregarious bird and a cooperative breeder, always seen in groups, often lined up on telephone wires.

[2] The yellow-billed shrike feeds on insects, which it locates from prominent look-out perches in trees, wires, or posts.