Woodchat Shrike
The Woodchat Shrike is a member of the shrike family. The male is a striking bird with black and white plumage and a chestnut crown whilst in the female and young birds the upperparts are brown and vermiculated. Underparts are buff and also vermiculated.
The Woodchat Shrike breeds in southern Europe, the Middle East and north west Africa and winters in tropical Africa. It breeds in open cultivated country, preferably with orchard trees and some bare or sandy ground.
The Woodchat Shrike eats large insects, small birds and frogs. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder".
Date: 10th September 2010
Location: Lago de Sanabria, Castille y Leon, Spain
The Woodchat Shrike breeds in southern Europe, the Middle East and north west Africa and winters in tropical Africa. It breeds in open cultivated country, preferably with orchard trees and some bare or sandy ground.
The Woodchat Shrike eats large insects, small birds and frogs. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder".
Date: 10th September 2010
Location: Lago de Sanabria, Castille y Leon, Spain
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Also in: South and north west Spain - September 2010
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