Willard's Sooty Boubou - (Laniarius willardi) is an Albertine Rift endemic family Malaconotidae (Bushshrikes) member. Laniarius willardi was only described thirteen years back despite collecting the first specimen over 100 years ago. Boubous are typically black and large-sized black and white members of the Bushshrike family.

They are as vocal as the other many coloured species and Gonoleks. All very skulky, loving thickets and vines and sometimes slowly sneaking in to see who is intruding if the first contact is by foreign vocalisation. We delightful had the most ample time with this one