Lanius collurio
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Male has a chestnut back and wings, blue-grey crown and nape, and pinkish underparts
Thick black mask from bill through the eye to behind the ear; brown and faint in the female
Female and juvenile brown with fine crescent-shaped barring across the breast and flanks
Impales caught insects and lizards on barbed wire or hawthorn spines to form a larder
Sits bolt upright on an exposed perch such as a bush top, wire or post, swinging its tail while scanning the ground
Hard "chack chack" alarm; song a quiet rambling warble that includes mimicry of other birds
