Shrike
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A typical shrike's beak is hooked, like a bird of prey, reflecting its predatory nature.
Numerous species of shrike are present on all continents except South America and Australia.
Shrikes are also known as "butcher birds" because of their habit of keeping a "larder" of corpses. (Note that the butcherbirds of Australasia are not shrikes, although they occupy a similar ecological niche.)
Species are
Family: Lanidae
- Great Grey Shrike or Northern Shrike Lanius excubitor
- Southern Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- Tiger Shrike, Lanius tigrinus
- Bull-headed Shrike, Lanius bucephalus
- Brown Shrike, Lanius cristatus
- Burmese Shrike, Lanius collurioides
- Emin's Shrike, Lanius gubernator
- Souza's Shrike, Lanius souzae
- Bay-backed Shrike, Lanius vittatus
- Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus
- Gray-capped Shrike, Lanius validirostris
- Loggerhead Shrike, Lanius ludovicianus
- Chinese Gray Shrike, Lanius sphenocercus
- Gray-backed Fiscal, Lanius excubitoroides
- Long-tailed Fiscal, Lanius cabanisi
- Taita Fiscal, Lanius dorsalis
- Somali Fiscal, Lanius somalicus
- Mackinnon's Shrike, Lanius mackinnoni
- Common Fiscal, Lanius collaris
- Newton's Fiscal, Lanius newtoni
- Yellow-billed Shrike, Corvinella corvina
- Magpie Shrike, Corvinella melanoleuca
- White-rumped Shrike, Eurocephalus rueppelli
- White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus anguitimens
- Campephagidae, cuckoo-shrikes
- Prionopidae, helmet shrikes
- Malaconotidae,
puffback shrikes, bush shrikes, tchagras and boubous