Great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor)

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Photo by The MnMs

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Field Notes

Description:

Males and females are similar in plumage, pearly grey above with a black eye-mask and white underparts. They impal little rodents on thorns, to eat them.

Habitat:

May have been just wintering in the Caribbean. In the summer they should be found up North in the hemisphere.

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Great Grey Shrike

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Comments (4)

The MnMs

Yes, is sometimes amazing that a little bird can also be a hunter the magnitude of a raptor. Is like dolphins, everyone thinks of them as very peaceful creatures but this is a misleading concept. They can also be very agressive and they even kill small whales once in while..This is all part of nature..it does not make it any less nice :-)

Ashish

Very similar to Indian. It pinned his hunted insects in to tree prickles and slowly eat them.

alicelongmartin

Thanks for the story, though I am sorry for the Great Tit.

Birgitte

This bird has occasionally appeared in our garden in the summer. Beautiful bird, but dangerous to the smaller birds in the garden. I saw it hunt and kill a Great Tit (Parus major) once. Very determined, and not easily distracted...

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Great grey shrike

Lanius excubitor