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Great Grey Shrike № 186

Great Grey Shrike

Lanius excubitor

Impales small birds and rodents on thorns or barbed wire to come back to later, hence the old names butcher bird and murdering pie. The excubitor in its name means sentinel.

Photo · Лариса Артемьева · public domain

Call · Stanislas Wroza · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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