Shrikes
Laniidae
Shrikes (/ʃraɪk/) are carnivorous passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of thirty-one species in four genera. They are fairly closely related to the bush-shrike family Malaconotidae.
4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 34 known species
Typical Shrikes
genusLanius
White-crowned and White-rumped Shrikes
genusEurocephalus
Magpie shrikes
genusUrolestes
Yellow-billed Shrikes
genusCorvinella
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 12015.