red-backed shrike

English

a red-backed shrike, Lanius collurio

Wikispecies

Noun

red-backed shrike (plural red-backed shrikes)

1. A medium-sized bird (Lanius collurio) of the shrike family that breeds in most of Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa, eating large insects, small birds, voles, and lizards.

Synonyms

• (UK, regional) pope

Translations

medium-sized bird

• Chechen: кукмӏаьв (kukmˀäʷ)
• Finnish: pikkulepinkäinen (fi)
• French: pie-grièche écorcheur (fr) f
• German: Neuntöter (de) m, Rotrückenwürger (de) m
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• Polish: gąsiorek m
• Russian: обыкнове́нный жула́н m (obyknovénnyj žulán), сорокопу́т-жула́н m (sorokopút-žulán)
• Swedish: törnskata (sv) c