Grey-backed Shrike

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When to see the Grey-backed Shrike

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Grey-backed Shrike

The map shades 10 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in South Korea.

About the Grey-backed Shrike

The grey-backed shrike is a bird in the family Laniidae inhabiting South-east Asia.

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Easily confused with

Masked ShrikeLanius nubicusThe masked shrike is the smallest of its genus, a slender bird which usually weighs 20–23 g (0.71–0.81 oz), measuring 17–18.5 cm (6.7–7.3 in) long with a 24–26.5 cm (9.4–10.4 in) wingspan. Isabelline ShrikeLanius isabellinusThe plumage is isabelline, the sandy colour which gives rise to its name. Northern FiscalLanius humeralisThis is a fairly distinctive 21–23 cm long passerine with white underparts and black upperparts extending from the top of the head down to the tail.

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