Grey Butcherbird (aka Grey-backed Shrike)

["martin butterfield" <>]

Geoffrey

Is that part of New Guinea in the Southern hemisphere, along with the prime
shrike-infested real estate that stretches from Kenya to the Cape?

I would also point out that the original user of the phrase G b Shrike was
your partner in goshawk-teasing, Mr Rusk.  I believe he was reporting not
for Belconnen but his current domicile in Tasmania which is a bit further
away from PNG, but possibly still in range of a spatially confused shrike.

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey Dabb 
Sent: Friday, 25 February 2005 9:35 AM
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Subject: Grey Butcherbird (aka Grey-backed Shrike)


So the Grey-backed Shrike L tephronotus had not strayed from its native
Himalayas after all?  I had thought the eagle-eyed wishtickers had struck
again.   The Grey-backed is said to resemble the Long-tailed ('Schach's')
which, as it occurs commonly in New Guinea, I was going to suggest as
perhaps the more likely for Belconnen.