Isabelline Shrike

The isabelline shrike, or Daurian shrike, is a migratory shrike found in a wide area between the Caspian Sea and north and central China, wintering in Africa and Arabia. It was previously considered the same species as the red-backed and red-tailed shrikes. The plumage is isabelline, the sandy colour that gives it its name, with a red tail (Wikipedia, general species account).

It eats large insects, small birds, rodents and lizards, hunting from prominent perches and impaling prey on thorns or barbed wire as a larder. It breeds in open cultivated country, preferably with thorn bushes.