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  The Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. The genus name, Lanius, is derived from the Latin word for "butcher", and some shrikes are also known as "butcher birds" because of their feeding habits. The specific senator is Latin for "senator", so-named because its chestnut cap recalled the colour of the stripe on the toga of a Roman senator. The common name "Woodchat" is an Anglicisation of German waldkatze, literally "woodcat", and "shrike" is from Old English scrÃc, "shriek", referring to the shrill call. The woodchat shrike breeds in southern Europe, the Middle East and northwest Africa, and winters in tropical Africa. It breeds in open cultivated country, preferably with orchard trees and some bare or sandy ground. Distribution and habitat The breeding range of the woodchat shrike is in southern Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East. The range extends from Portugal to Greece, Turkey, Iraq and Iran, and from Mauritania and Western Sahara in northern Africa to Libya. This bird overwinters in tropical central Africa, its winter range extending from Senegal to Sudan and Ethiopia in the east and southwards to Gabon.   Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net
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 Lanius senator - Range Map - Orange: Summer Blue: Winter
By Scops Source: Tony Harris & Kim Franklin: Shrikes and Bush-Shrikes.
Helm London 2000. S. 70. ISBN 0-7136-3861-3 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4976708 Description The male is a striking bird with black and white upper parts, a chestnut crown and pure white underparts. The race L. s. badius of the western Mediterranean lacks the large white wing patches. In the female and young birds, the upperparts are brown and white and vermiculated. Underparts are buff and also vermiculated.
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  Eggs
By Didier Descouens - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25534769 Behaviour and ecology This migratory medium-sized passerine eats large insects, small birds and amphibians. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder". This species often overshoots its breeding range on spring migration, and is a rare, but annual, visitor to Great Britain. The Balearic race badius has occurred in Britain around four times as a vagrant, and has also been recorded once in Ireland. Conservation status
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22705095A118777394.
doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22705095A118777394.en. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Sighted: 21 October 2019 (Date of first photo that I could use) Location: Awash National Park, Ethiopia  Woodchat shrike - Awash National Park, Ethiopia - 21 October 2019
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