Jose B. Ruiz / Great grey shrike with impaled mouse prey which it is dismembering to feed to chicks. Spain

Dietmar Nill / Great grey shrike with impaled frog prey, Germany

Fabrice Cahez / Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) female feeding offspring beetle. Vosges, France, June.

Roger Powell / Great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) portrait, Guerreiro, Castro Verde, Alentejo, Portugal, April

Grzegorz Lesniewski / Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) perched. Mazovia, Poland, June.

Grzegorz Lesniewski / Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) with insect in its beak. Mazovia, Poland, June.

Fabrice Cahez / Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) perched in bush, Vosges, France, February.

Charlie Summers / Northern / Great Gray Shrike (Lanius excubitor) sitting on a branch. Bosque del Apache, New Mexico, USA, February.

David Tipling / Great Grey Shrike {Lanius excubitor} perched, Kelling Heath, Norfolk, UK, April

David Tipling / Great Grey Shrike {Lanius excubitor} perched, Kelling Heath, Norfolk, UK, April

David Tipling / Great Grey Shrike {Lanius excubitor} perched on conifer, Kelling Heath, Norfolk, UK, April

Donald M. Jones / Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) spitting up pellet, western Montana

Donald M. Jones / Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor), western Montana

Bruno D'Amicis / Great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) calling. NE Germany.

Michel Poinsignon / Great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) with mouse prey impaled on barbed wire, Lorraine, France

Michel Poinsignon / Great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) with mouse prey impaled on barbed wire, Lorraine, France

Mike Wilkes / Great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) impaling grasshopper on Accacia thorn, larder, Kenya

Steven Kazlowski / Great grey / Northern shrike {Lanis excubitor} juvenile perching on branch, looking sideways, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

Steven Kazlowski / Great grey / Northern shrike {Lanis excubitor} juvenile, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

Steven Kazlowski / Great grey / Northern shrike {Lanis excubitor} juvenile looking back, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

Steven Kazlowski / Great grey / Northern shrike {Lanis excubitor} juvenile portrait perching on branch, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

Artur Tabor / Great grey shrike {Lanius excubitor} on nest in pine tree, Podlasie, Poland.

Artur Tabor / Great grey shrike {Lanius excubitor} with chicks on nest, Mazovia, Poland.

Hanne Jens Eriksen / Great grey shrike feeds on bird prey {Lanius excubitor} Dauka, Oman

Flip de Nooyer / Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) adult perching, Europe

Dietmar Nill / Great grey shrike {Lanius excubitor} Spain

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Great grey shrike {Lanius excubitor aucheri} Oman

Jose B. Ruiz / Great grey shrike feeding mouse prey to young, Spain

Jose B. Ruiz / Great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) with impaled prey. Spain, Europe

Jose B. Ruiz / Great grey shrike chick hatching from egg, Spain

Jose B. Ruiz / Great grey shrike chick hatching from egg, Spain

Jose B. Ruiz / Great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) feeding chicks Spain. Alicante

Mike Wilkes / Great grey shrikes displaying and calling in tree, Kenya

Jose B. Ruiz / Great grey shrike chick hatching from egg, Spain

Jose B. Ruiz / Great grey shrike at nest with hungry chicks begging (Lanius excubitor) Spain

Jose B. Ruiz / Great grey shrike with sparrow prey (Lanius excubitor) Alicante, Spain

Jose B. Ruiz / Great grey shrike with impaled prey (Lanius excubitor) dismembering mouse to feed to chicks, Spain