lesser grey shrike
lanius minor latin

The Lesser Grey Shrike is a smaller and comparatively short-tailed bird.

Lanius minor Gmelin (lesser grey shrike)

The Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae.

Lesser Grey Shrike - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

The rest of the reserve also has unusual breeding birds; Saker Falcon, Lesser Grey Shrike and a host of others.

At that time, none of the other grey shrikes - including the Lesser Grey Shrike (L. minor), for which the description of the tail pattern is incorrect and which some authors already recognized as distinct - were considered separate species by Linnaeus, but that was to change soon.

Belene Island is a part of the Belene Islands Complex and of the Persina Natural Park, a home to over 170 species of rare water birds, such as the Glossy Ibis, Pygmy Cormorant, Lesser Grey Shrike, Red-breasted Goose and others.