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Laniidae

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Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor � Andy Holt http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.holt/digiscope/

Most authorities agree that there are just 33 species of true Shrikes; they are:

Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina

Magpie Shrike Urolestes melanoleucus

Northern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus rueppelli
Southern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus anguitimens

Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus
Souza's Shrike Lanius souzae
Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus
Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
Red-tailed Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides
Burmese Shrike Lanius collurioides
Emin's Shrike Lanius gubernator
Bay-backed Shrike Lanius vittatus
Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus
Mountain Shrike Lanius validirostris
Mackinnon's Shrike Lanius mackinnoni
Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor
Southern Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis
Steppe Grey Shrike Lanius pallidirostris
Chinese Grey Shrike Lanius sphenocercus
Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi
Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis
Somali Fiscal Lanius somalicus
Common Fiscal Lanius collaris
Uhehe Fiscal Lanius marwitzi
Sao Tome Fiscal Lanius newtoni
Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus

Family Links

Shrikes Laniidae

http://listoiseauxmonde.multimania.com/Laniid.html

Image + list (in French) of 34 Taxons - includes 3 sub-species.

Species Links

Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/Shrike/

Image + These pages were instigated by the discovery of a Brown Shrike in Nova Scotia in November & December, 1997. This bird was the first individual of this species to be found in Canada, and only the North American record outside of Alaska and California...

Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Loggerhead_Shrike_dtl.html

A small gray, black, and white bird of open areas, the Loggerhead Shrike hardly appears to be a predator. But it uses its hooked beak to kill insects, lizards, mice, and birds, and then impales them on thorns to hold them while it rips them apart....

Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/r/redbackedshrike/index.asp

ed-backed shrikes are slightly larger, but slimmer, than house sparrows. The male is unmistakable with a bluish-grey head, black mask, bright chestnut back and thick hooked black bill...

Number of Species

Number of bird species: 33

Useful Reading

Shrikes - A Guide to the Shrikes of the World

by Norbert Lefranc & Tim Worfolk Pica Press 1997
ISBN: 187340347X
Buy this book from NHBS.com

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