![]() ![]() ![]() The masked shrike's preferred habitat is open woodland with bushes and some large trees. The species' calls are short and grating, but the song has melodic warbler-like components. The juvenile has grey-brown upperparts with a paler forehead and barring from the head to rump, barred off-white underparts and brown wings аpart from the white primary patches. The female is a duller version of the male, with brownish black upperparts and a grey or buff tone to the shoulders and underparts. ![]() The throat, neck sides and underparts are white, with orange flanks and breast. The male has mainly black upperparts, with white on its crown, forehead and supercilium and large white patches on the shoulders and wings. It is the smallest member of its genus, long-tailed and with a hooked bill. Although it is a short-range migrant, vagrants have occurred widely elsewhere, including northern and western Europe. It is migratory, wintering mainly in northeast Africa. It breeds in southeastern Europe and at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, with a separate population in eastern Iraq and western Iran. The masked shrike ( Lanius nubicus) is a species of bird in the shrike family, Laniidae. ![]()
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