red-backed shrike

English

Noun

red-backed shrike (plural red-backed shrikes)

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 (kukmʿäw)
French: pie-grièche écorcheur (fr) f
German: Neuntöter (de) m, Rotrückenwürger (de) m

Polish: gąsiorek m
Russian: обыкнове́нный жула́н m (obyknovénnyj žulán), сорокопу́т-жула́н m (sorokopút-žulán)

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