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red-backed_shrike

red-backed shrike

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Wikispecies

Noun

red-backed shrike (plural red-backed shrikes)

  1. A medium-sized bird (Lanius collurio) of the shrike family that breeds in most of Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa, eating large insects, small birds, voles, and lizards.

Synonyms

  • (UK, regional) pope

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