Lesser Grey Shrike

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has a pale blue-gray back
2. Male has a pink wash on the lower breast and belly
3. Legs and feet black

Male, female and young

Juvenile is browner overall, with a pale rufous back and rump showing faint barring, and no pink on the underparts.

Where and when it's recorded

Lesser Grey Shrike has been recorded at 585 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 76 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Aras Kuş Halkalama İstasyonuTürkiye580 records
2. International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE)Israel373 records
3. RivaTürkiye323 records

Countries and regions with the most records

South AfricaIsraelTürkiyeGreeceBulgariaNamibiaKenyaHungary

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The lesser grey shrike (Lanius minor) is a passerine bird in the shrike family Laniidae. It breeds in South and Central Europe and western Asia and migrates to winter quarters in southern Africa in the early autumn, returning in spring. It is a scarce vagrant to western Europe, including Great Britain, usually as a spring or autumn erratic.

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