Great Gray Shrike

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Lanius excubitor

Great Gray Shrike, a reference photo
Photo: Tisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)

The great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) is a large and predatory songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae). It forms a superspecies with a number of large, similar-looking parapatric relatives. Males and females are similar in plumage, pearly grey above with a black eye-mask and white underparts.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Great Gray Shrike being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

Classification

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Laniidae
Genus
Lanius
Species
Lanius excubitor

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