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Woodchat Shrike
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Taken
at St Abbs Head on 22nd June 2016 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 150-500 mm zoom lens.
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| Woodchat Shrike. |
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Lanius senator. Passeriformes. Laniidae. |
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In open cultivated country, preferably with orchard trees and some bare or sandy ground. Eats large insects, small birds, frogs, rodents and lizards. It hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder". The male has black and white plumage and a chestnut crown In the female and young birds, the upperparts are brown and marked with sinuous or wavy lines. 16 - 18 cms. Rare but annual visitor to the U.K. Voice courtesy of Xeno Canto |
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