Lesser Grey Shrike

Lesser Grey Shrike

Taxobox
name = Lesser Grey Shrike
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Laniidae
genus = "Lanius"
species = "L. minor"
binomial = "Lanius minor"
binomial_authority = Gmelin, 1788The Lesser Grey Shrike ("Lanius minor") is a member of the shrike family "Laniidae".

It is similar in appearance to the Great Grey Shrike "Lanius excubitor" and the Southern Grey Shrike "L. meridionalis". It breeds in southeastern Europe and into Asia.

This species prefers dry open lowlands, and is prominent on telephone wires.

It is slightly smaller than the Great Grey Shrike, and has a black forehead and relatively longer wings.

This medium-sized migratory passerine eats large insects, small birds, rodents and lizards. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder".

It is a scarce vagrant to western Europe, including Great Britain, usually as a spring overshoot.


References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* [http://www.oiseaux.net/birds/photos/lesser.grey.shrike.html Oiseaux] Pictures
* [http://www.ibercajalav.net/img/402_LesserGreyShrikeLminor.pdf Ageing and sexing (PDF) by Javier Blasco-Zumeta]


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