A pure insectivore, it uses its powerful and curved beak to break the exoskeletons of the beetles and other insects on which it feeds. The Lesser Grey Shrike is medium-sized bird with specific bill with hooked tip. Lesser Grey Shrike Gryslaksman Lanius minor The Lesser Grey Shrike is a Palearctic migrant which can be considered a ‘nonbreeding endemic’ to southern Africa, since this is the nonbreeding destination of virtually the entire world population (Curry-Lindahl 1981; Pearson & Lack 1992). Fairly long, black wings with white patch, medium black tail with white outer feathers. The lesser grey shrike is a small passerine bird of the Laniidae family characterised by a large beak and head that are out of proportion with the rest of its body. In all plumages told from Great Grey Shrike L. excubitor by very long primary projection, stout bill, large rectangular wing patch and extended white at base of tail. Lesser Grey Shrike: Medium-sized shrike, grey above, white pink below, white on throat and vent. On adult males the crown, mantle and uppertail are grey; the eye-mask is black and broad. It also breeds in Southern Altai foothills and in Zaysan depression. Publish date: 08/08/2019. A successful conservation program (more info: Trenca) was started and saved the species from extinction in Spain. Tertials without white edge. The wings are black with quite large white speculum formed by the white bases of only primaries; … Only one pair settled in mid-May in the department of Hérault, but at the beginning of July the female disappeared and the male alone could not feed the chicks. Distribution / Range. Lesser Grey Shrike has failed to breed successfully in France this year for the first time in recorded history, making it the first bird species to be lost as a breeder in the country in the 21st century. The Lesser Grey Shrike breeds on plains and low mountains almost throughout in Kazakhstan, excepting the tree-less countries (Mangyshlak, Ustyurt, Betpak-Dala, Tengiz-Kurgaldzhino depression and Northern Trans-Balkhash area) and Kazakh Upland. Female, juvenile like male but no pink, paler, no black front, some white scaling on back. The Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. The Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae.It breeds in South and Central Europe and western Asia in the summer and migrates to winter quarters in southern Africa in the early autumn, returning in spring. The Lesser Grey Shrike is common, in some places abundant, breeding migrant. Lesser Grey Shrike was very close to extinction in Iberia, with the only remaining breeding population in Catalonia, eastern Spain, reduced to one (!) It is a scarce vagrant to western Europe, including Great Britain, usually as a spring overshoot. The program now includes captitive breeding. It is a scarce vagrant to western Europe, including Great Britain, usually as a spring or autumn erratic.. Lesser Grey Shrike lost as breeding species in France. Black mask and forehead, Stout, black-grey bill, short black-grey legs. pair in 2011-2013. Lanius minor, Lesser Grey Shrike, ヒメオオモズ; Lanius ludovicianus, Loggerhead Shrike, アメリカオオモズ; Lanius excubitor, Great Grey Shrike, オオモズ （ Northern Shrike ） Lanius meridionalis, Southern Grey Shrike, ミナミオオモズ; Lanius pallidirostris, Steppe Grey Shrike （ L. meridionalis から分離） It inhabits light deciduous forest with clearings, forest edge, groves, birch birch groves in steppe, isolated trees in open areas and forest-belts in plains and in mountains up to 2000 … It breeds in southeastern Europe and into Asia. 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