picanço-real-nortenho
Also known as Lanius excubitor, mattagesse, mattagese, mattagess, mattages, killer magpie, murdering pie, greater butcher-bird
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AI overview
The Great Grey Shrike is a medium-sized predatory bird found across the Northern Hemisphere that hunts small animals like rodents and insects. It's notable for its distinctive behavior of impaling prey on thorns or sharp objects, which helps it store food and tear apart meals with its hooked beak.
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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 63.4
- Image
- Lanius excubitor elegans MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.232.1.jpg
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- taxon name
- Lanius excubitor
- Commons category
- Lanius excubitor
- Commons gallery
- Lanius excubitor
- wingspan
- 32
- egg incubation period
- 16
- taxon common name
- picanço-nortenho
- short name
- L. excubitor