{"id":25350,"date":"2012-11-05T14:17:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/great-grey-shrike-lanius-excubitor\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:13:50","slug":"great-grey-shrike-lanius-excubitor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/great-grey-shrike-lanius-excubitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) is a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae). Breeding takes place in northern Europe and Asia, and in North America, Canada and Alaska. Most populations migrate south in winter to temperate regions. The Great Grey Shrike is carnivorous, and mostly eats rodents.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Great Grey Shrike\u00a0<i>Lanius\u00a0excubitor<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-226-25350\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1632\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/great-grey-shrike-lanius-excubitor\/great-grey-shrike-lanius-excubitor-1.jpg\" title=\"Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) at Rheindelta, Hoechster Ried, Vorarlberg, Austria\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) at Rheindelta, Hoechster Ried, Vorarlberg, Austria\" alt=\"Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/great-grey-shrike-lanius-excubitor\/thumbs\/thumbs_great-grey-shrike-lanius-excubitor-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) is a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae). Breeding takes place in northern Europe and Asia, and in North America, Canada and Alaska. Most populations migrate south in winter to temperate regions. The Great Grey Shrike is carnivorous, and mostly eats rodents. Factsheet: Great Grey Shrike\u00a0Lanius\u00a0excubitor\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":831361,"parent":17619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[2158,2159],"class_list":["post-25350","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-great-grey-shrike","tag-lanius-excubitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25350\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}