Great Gray Shrike
Lanius excubitor
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.
- Scientific name
- Lanius excubitor
- Family
- Shrikes
- IUCN status
- LC