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title: "Pie-grièche à dos noir"
description: "Lanius humeralis — Oiseaux. The northern fiscal (Lanius humeralis) is a member of the shrike family found through most of Sub-Saharan Africa."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/northern-fiscal
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pie-grièche à dos noir

> Lanius humeralis — Oiseaux. The northern fiscal (Lanius humeralis) is a member of the shrike family found through most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

- Scientific name: *Lanius humeralis*
- Category: `birds` (Oiseaux)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savane)
- iNaturalist observations: 1650
- Wikidata: [Q10784388](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10784388)
- iNaturalist taxon: [201149](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/201149)

## Names

- en: Northern Fiscal
- de: Nördlicher Fiskalwürger
- es: Alcaudón fiscal
- fr: Pie-grièche à dos noir
- nl: Noordelijke gekraagde klauwier
- pl: Dzierzba epoletowa

## Countries with the most observations

KE (523), TZ (440), ET (114), UG (108), GH (55), ZM (55), RW (38), BJ (32), MW (26), GN (22), BI (19), LR (18)

## Summary

The northern fiscal (Lanius humeralis) is a member of the shrike family found through most of Sub-Saharan Africa. It used to be grouped with the southern fiscal (Lanius collaris).  Together they were called the common fiscal. The fiscal gets its English and Afrikaans common names from its black and white 'suit-and-tie' appearance reminiscent of the taxman (‘fiscal’).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_fiscal

## Photo

![Pie-grièche à dos noir](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/northern-fiscal/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ben Keen · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200394272

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/northern-fiscal?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).