Perching Birds
Great Gray Shrike
Lanius excubitor
Laniidae Low risk
The great grey shrike is a large and predatory songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae). It forms a superspecies with its parapatric southern relatives, the Iberian grey shrike, the Chinese grey shrike and the American loggerhead shrike. Males and females are similar in plumage, pearly grey above with a black eye-mask and white underparts.
Summary from Wikipedia
At a glance
Family
Laniidae
Group
Perching Birds
Conservation status
Low risk
Similar birds
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