Great Gray Shrike (Lanius excubitor)

About Great Gray Shrike (Lanius excubitor)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Birds
• Order: Perching Birds
• Family: Shrikes

The great grey shrike is a large and predatory songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae). It forms a superspecies with its parapatric southern relatives, the Iberian grey shrike, the Chinese grey shrike and the American loggerhead shrike. Males and females are similar in plumage, pearly grey above with a black eye-mask and white underparts.

Source: Wikipedia