Family
Shrikes
Laniidae
34 species with a page on Motmot.
Order: Passeriformes
Shrikes () are passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of 34 species in two genera. The family name, and that of the larger genus, Lanius, is derived from the Latin word for "butcher", and some shrikes are also known as butcherbirds because of the habit, particularly of males, of impaling prey onto plant spines within their territories.
Species in this family
- Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina
- White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus anguitimens
- White-rumped Shrike Eurocephalus ruppelli
- Northern Shrike Lanius borealis
- Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus
- Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi
- Southern Fiscal Lanius collaris
- Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio
- Burmese Shrike Lanius collurioides
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis
- Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor
- Grey-backed Fiscal Lanius excubitoroides
- Giant Shrike Lanius giganteus
- Emin's Shrike Lanius gubernator
- Northern Fiscal Lanius humeralis
- Isabelline Shrike Lanius isabellinus
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- Mackinnon's Shrike Lanius mackinnoni
- Iberian Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis
- Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor
- Newton's Fiscal Lanius newtoni
- Masked Shrike Lanius nubicus
- Turkestan Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator
- Somali Fiscal Lanius somalicus
- Souza's Shrike Lanius souzae
- Chinese Grey Shrike Lanius sphenocercus
- Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus
- Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus
- Mountain Shrike Lanius validirostris
- Bay-backed Shrike Lanius vittatus
- Magpie Shrike Urolestes melanoleucus
Lookalikes compared
- Brown Shrike vs Northern Shrike
- Great Grey Shrike vs Chinese Grey Shrike
- Great Grey Shrike vs Woodchat Shrike
- Iberian Grey Shrike vs Lesser Grey Shrike
- Iberian Grey Shrike vs Woodchat Shrike
- Isabelline Shrike vs Brown Shrike
- Isabelline Shrike vs Great Grey Shrike
- Isabelline Shrike vs Iberian Grey Shrike
- Isabelline Shrike vs Lesser Grey Shrike
- Isabelline Shrike vs Long-tailed Shrike
- Lesser Grey Shrike vs Grey-backed Fiscal
- Lesser Grey Shrike vs Woodchat Shrike
- Loggerhead Shrike vs Northern Shrike
- Long-tailed Shrike vs Chinese Grey Shrike
- Long-tailed Shrike vs Lesser Grey Shrike
- Long-tailed Shrike vs Masked Shrike
- Red-backed Shrike vs Lesser Grey Shrike
- Red-backed Shrike vs Woodchat Shrike
- Taita Fiscal vs Northern Fiscal
- Tiger Shrike vs Brown Shrike
- Tiger Shrike vs Bull-headed Shrike
- Tiger Shrike vs Red-backed Shrike
- Turkestan Shrike vs Isabelline Shrike
- Turkestan Shrike vs Long-tailed Shrike