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<p> <em>Lanius collurio</em> Linnaeus, 1758</p>

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  • Red-backed Shrike

  • Lanius collurio Linnaeus, 1758

  • Laniidae

  • The red-backed shrike is a passerine bird with a long tail, long beak with a curved tail and strong legs. The male has a grey head with a black mask, white face and throat, red back, pink abdomen and chest and a black tail with white lateral spots. The female has a more tenuous colouration, brown on the dorsal surface and yellowish white with a vermicular pattern of the ventral surface, dark tail with white margins and a brown ocular stripe. It can measure up to 18 cm long.

  • Peneda-Gerês National Park

    Montesinho Nature Park

    Corno de Bico Protected Landscape

  • Norte

  • Near Threatened

  • The red-back shrike exists in meadows and marshes with hedges and heather, usually above 800 meters high.

  • Spring and Summer

  • The red-backed shrike feeds on insects, such a coleoptera, other invertebrates and small vertebrates (mammals, birds and reptiles).

  • The Portuguese population of this species is estimated to be between 100 and 500 couples.