Great grey shrike

00:00 DESCRIPTION
The great grey shrike is a striking larger songbird with a body length of 24-26 cm. It is the largest of the six European shrike family. The head and back are grey, the wings and tail are black. The wings have white fields and the tail is white-lined. A black mask extends from the bill over the eye to the middle of the head. The lower part of the body is white, the breast somewhat grey. Both sexes are similarly coloured. An interesting feature of the puffins is their beak. They have a sharp projection on it in front of the end of the upper jaw, which is matched by a notch in the lower jaw. It's used to kill prey. When the prey is grabbed by the neck and squeezed, it separates the cervical vertebrae. Apart from the kestrels, only falcon predators have this protrusion.
01:16 FOOD
The grey wagtail's food consists mainly of larger insects, small rodents and smaller birds. However, it will also attack blackbirds, which are about the same size. It will also sometimes impale its captured prey on sharp twigs or wedge them into forks.
01:37 NESTING
Breeds once a year. It usually builds its open bowl-shaped nest high up, often on conifers on lateral branches. The height of the nest depends on the habitat.
It may even use it again for nesting the following year. The base of the nest is made up of twigs, which are lined with grass, moss or hair. The female lays 3 - 9 eggs but usually 7 , on which she sits mostly alone for about 16 days. After a further two to three weeks, the fledged young leave the nest and are fed by both parents outside the nest. In another 3 to 5 weeks they become completely independent.
02:33 DISTRIBUTION
The great grey shrike lives in lower and middle elevations, in open country with plenty of copses and places providing sufficient views. It is a semi-migratory bird breeding in temperate to subpolar Europe and Asia.
For the winter, woodpeckers from northern areas move south to the temperate zone, and those from the temperate zone either stay or move migrate further south.

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