Southern Grey Shrike
The Southern Grey Shrike is a member of the shrike family about the size of a large thrush. The plumage is generally similar to Great Grey Shrike to which it is closely related and with which it used to be considered conspecific. Where the 2 species do co-occur, they do not interbreed and are separated by choice of habitat.
The Southern Grey Shrike is resident in southern Europe and north Africa where it can be found in dry open country. It eats large insects, small birds and rodents. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches for large insects, small birds and rodents and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder".
Date: 13th September 2013
Location: view from road to Embalse del Jándula, Sierra de Andújar, Andalucia, Spain
The Southern Grey Shrike is resident in southern Europe and north Africa where it can be found in dry open country. It eats large insects, small birds and rodents. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches for large insects, small birds and rodents and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder".
Date: 13th September 2013
Location: view from road to Embalse del Jándula, Sierra de Andújar, Andalucia, Spain
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Also in: South Spain - September 2013
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