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Red-backed Shrike
Lanius collurio
46.1871, 5.94611
Field Notes
Description:
This elegant butcher-birid is somewhat short of 20cm in length, with red-brown upperparts, grey crown and a typical black 'bandit-mask' around its eyes. Pictured here is male, with it's underparts creamy-pale-pinkish - females have them buff and vermiculated.
Habitat:
Seen perched high in a canopy of a hedgerows around a protected apple orchard (Tiocan) ; in Geneva lake valley, beginning of lower slopes of Jura mountain range - agricultural area, bordering mixed forests. The orchard itself is run by an association, and serves the purpose of preserving old varieties of apple trees.
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PublishedMay 8, 2023
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