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Lanius cristatus
What makes it lucionensis is the gray head contrasting with rufous brown mantle. Subspecies lucionensis has a grey crown shading into the brown upperparts and the rump appears more rufous than the rest of the upper back. The tail is more brownish and not as reddish as in the red-backed shrike. Younger birds of lucionensis have a brown crown and lack the grey on the head. Supspecies superciliosus has a broad white supercilium and a richer reddish crown. The tail is redder and tipped in white.
Spotted inside a throny shrub forest inside IIM Trichy campus, Tamilnadu.
Spotted on Oct 20, 2016
Submitted on Oct 20, 2016
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