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Where does the Great Gray Shrike live?

Lanius excubitor has 792,429 records in 114 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Great Gray Shrike
Great Gray Shrike โ€” Photo: Tisha Mukherjee ยท CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesLaniidaeLanius

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 282,092
Netherlands 96,152
Denmark 57,271
Norway 41,714
Spain 29,893
Israel 25,438
France 24,771
India 23,613
Finland 21,184
United Arab Emirates 18,898
Estonia 18,566
Belgium 17,351
Germany 17,082
Poland 14,205
Morocco 11,651
Russia 11,330
Czechia 8,539
United Kingdom 6,472
Italy 5,028
Ukraine 4,656
Austria 4,445
United States 4,246
Palestine 3,794
Kuwait 2,718
Oman 2,621
Tunisia 2,201
Hungary 2,150
Slovakia 1,704
Saudi Arabia 1,652
Croatia 1,614
Bulgaria 1,592
Lithuania 1,575
Belarus 1,533
Romania 1,429
Iran 1,369
Qatar 1,331
Canada 1,330
Luxembourg 1,304
Jordan 1,254
Serbia 1,150

Showing the top 40 of 114 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.