Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Brown Shrike
Lanius cristatus
- uncommon
- 48 km/h
- Least Concern
A long-distance traveler with a bandit's mask — bred in Siberia, wintering in mango groves, never the same perch two days in a row. Small, fierce, and famously hard to fool.
- Population
- large migratory population in the millions
- Habitat
- open scrub, hedgerows, forest edge, gardens; long-distance migrant from East Asia south to tropical Asia
- Diet
- large insects (grasshoppers, beetles, mantids), small lizards, occasional small birds
- Size
- 0.2 m
- Wingspan
- 0.28 m
