Shrike, Woodchat


Woodchat Shrike - Lanius senator
The Gambia - November 2018

The Woodchat Shrike breeds in the Iberian Peninsula and northwestern Africa eastward to the Near East.   It spends its non-breeding time in the Sub-Saharan zone which extends from Senegambia eastward to Kenya and southwestern Arabia.  The video framegrabs shown here are from recordings made in The Gambia during November 2018 - video link.




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