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- Lanius meridionalis
Identification
Distribution
Southern Europe and north Africa.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Dry open country.
Behaviour
The diet includes large insects, small birds, rodents and lizards. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder".