#0718 · 🐦 birds

Great Gray Shrike

🇳🇱 Klapekster ·Lanius excubitor

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Дмитрий Осипов · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Wolfgang Bettighofer · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Marek Szczepanek · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Radovan Václav · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © xulescu_g · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Uday Agashe · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 6991 Rheden, Netherlands:© Fred Derks · CC BY 4.0
8. Otterlo, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. Lelystad, Países Baixos:© Thijs Valkenburg · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Huizen, Netherlands:© Thomas._.Birnie · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The great grey shrike , northern grey shrike , or northern shrike ( Lanius excubitor ) is a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae). It forms a superspecies with its parapatric southern relatives, the southern grey shrike ( L. meridionalis ), the Chinese grey shrike ( L. sphenocerus ) and the loggerhead shrike ( L. ludovicianus ). Within the great grey shrike species itself, there are two subspecies. Males and females are similar in plumage, pearly grey above with a black eye-mask and white...

base stats

NL sightings 118iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,188iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).