Shrikes

Woodchat Shrike

Lanius senator

The Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator) is a 36 g scrub bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It migrates.

Family

Shrikes

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

36 g

Habitat

Shrubland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

54

Recorded in Spain, France, Portugal, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Sweden, Senegal, Italy, Cyprus, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Kuwait, Georgia, Palestine, Gambia, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, Belgium, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Albania, Tunisia, Iran, Uganda, North Macedonia, Armenia, Germany, Iraq, Mauritania, Russia, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Qatar, Lebanon, EH, Ghana, Malta, Romania, Libya, Switzerland, Ukraine, GI, Sudan, Austria, Benin.

Where to see it: Oued Jenna (Western Sahara); Oued Beni Brahim, Zighoud Youcef (Algeria); North Nouakchott waste water site (Mauritania); Comino (Malta); Ras Ghareb sewage ditch (Egypt).

Photo: (c) Vsevolod Rudyi, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist