great grey shrike
northern grey shrike

"Come quick," he said, "there's a great grey shrike down the field."

Within the Great Grey Shrike, 9 subspecies can be recognized.

A Great Grey Shrike was seen here in December 2001.

Within the Great Grey Shrike species itself, there are nine subspecies.

My first great grey shrike or, in twitcher language, "a tick".

The Great Grey Shrike eats small vertebrates and large invertebrates.

The Great Grey Shrike is 22-26 cm long.

The Great Grey Shrike is carnivorous, with rodents making up over half its diet.

The plumage is generally similar to Great Grey Shrike apart from the differences noted above.

It is slightly smaller and darker than the Great Grey Shrike, and prefers dry open country.

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

Some species like the Great Grey Shrike are found across the northern hemisphere to the Newton's Fiscal.

It may well be that the cuckoo's gens laying eggs similar to those of the Great Grey Shrike has become extinct.

The flight of the Great Grey Shrike is undulating and rather heavy, but its dash is straight and determined.

Stone Curlew breed on the edges of the forest and there is often a wintering Great Grey Shrike.

The Great Grey Shrike occurs throughout most temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

Great grey shrike females select a mate according to the size of prey impaled, with larders thus serving as an extended phenotype of a male.

The basic metabolic rate of the Great Grey Shrike is around 800 milliwatts, or somewhat more than 11 milliwatts per gram of body mass.

As remarked above, the Great Grey Shrike has apparently become extinct as a breeding bird in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

The 'Great Grey Shrike' ('Lanius excubitor') is a member of the shrike family.

The male Great Grey Shrike, a raptor-like passerine bird, gives prey (rodents, birds, lizards, or large insects) to females immediately before copulation.

Rarer birds include osprey, Red Kite, Black Redstart, and Great Grey Shrike have been seen.

A falconer's name for the Great Grey Shrike was Mattages(s)(e), which is related to Mat'agasse from the western Alps.

The Southern Grey Shrike (L. meridionalis) was formerly included in the Great Grey Shrike as subspecies.

Insessores [Perchers] (Great Grey Shrike - Mountain Linnet, or Twite)

The Northern Grey Shrike is sympatric in winter quarters with each of its three close relatives at the north of their range.

The Great Grey Shrike, Northern Grey Shrike, or Northern Shrike (Lanius excubitor) is a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae).