{"id":25380,"date":"2012-11-05T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:14:14","slug":"red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) is a carnivorous passerine bird and member of the shrike family Laniidae. It breeds in Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa. It hunts from prominent perches &amp; impales the corpses of large insects, small birds, frogs, rodents and lizards on thorns or barbed wire as a &#8220;larder&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Red-backed Shrike\u00a0<i>Lanius\u00a0collurio<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-252-25380\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1834\" 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\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio-4.jpg\" title=\"Eggersriet SG, Switzerland (27 Jul 2009)\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Eggersriet SG, Switzerland (27 Jul 2009)\" alt=\"Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio\/thumbs\/thumbs_red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio-4.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1833\" 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\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio-3.jpg\" title=\"Eggersriet SG, Switzerland (27 Jul 2009)\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Eggersriet SG, Switzerland (27 Jul 2009)\" alt=\"Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio\/thumbs\/thumbs_red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1832\" 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\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio-2.jpg\" title=\"Eggersriet SG, Switzerland (27 Jul 2009)\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Eggersriet SG, Switzerland (27 Jul 2009)\" alt=\"Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio\/thumbs\/thumbs_red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1831\" 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\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio-1.jpg\" title=\"Eggersriet SG, Switzerland (27 Jul 2009)\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Eggersriet SG, Switzerland (27 Jul 2009)\" alt=\"Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio\/thumbs\/thumbs_red-backed-shrike-lanius-collurio-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) <\/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 Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) is a carnivorous passerine bird and member of the shrike family Laniidae. It breeds in Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa. It hunts from prominent perches &amp; impales the corpses of large insects, small birds, frogs, rodents and lizards on thorns or barbed wire as a &#8220;larder&#8221;. 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