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 LC    Grey-backed Shrike* Id (Atlas):
    Lanius tephronotus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Grey-backed Shrike, Gray-backed Shrike, Tibetan Shrike

Family
Laniidae (Shrikes)

Size
22.50 - 25.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vigors, 1831)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, high altitude grassland, lowland moist shrubland, high altitude shrubland, lowland and montane moist forest. From 2,200 - 4,500 m.

Range (Guide)
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China (mainland), India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia (Asian), Thailand, Vietnam.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (40)...)

 
Grey-backed Shrike (Lanius tephronotus) [XC161121]
     by Albert Lastukhin from Wolong-Balangshan Rd, bends below tunnel, Sichuan, China (call)

 
Grey-backed Shrike (Lanius tephronotus) [XC810764]
     by Mike Nelson from Thulo Syabru, Rasuwa, Bagmati Province, Nepal (call)

Subspecies
Closely allied with Long-tailed Shrike (Lanius schach), and formerly treated as conspecific, but differs in morphology. The two species are largely sympatric and, although subspecies lahulensis sometimes considered to represent a hybrid population between them, there is no definite proof of interbreeding.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • lahulensis Koelz, 1950   -  Breeds northern Kashmir east to central-northern India (Uttaranchal Pradesh), and probably south-western China (western Xizang).
  • tephronotus (Vigors, 1831)   -  Breeds Nepal east to north-eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh), and central and southern China (southern Gansu, Ningxia and E Shaanxi south to south-eastern Qinghai, southern and eastern Xizang, south-eastern Yunnan and central Guizhou); non-breeding also south to Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Indochina.



References
See References.


Files:
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