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Lanius cristatus
Small predatory songbird, some 20cm in length. Brownish above, whitish below, and like most other shrikes, it has a distinctive black "bandit-mask". (this black mask may become paler and more discreet...).
Common in Asia, and found mainly in open scrub habitats, where it perches on the tops of thorny bushes in search of prey - here, just outside the village, and close to open paddy fields and other gardens.
Another gem in the collection of birds from my favorite family - Laniidae, butcher birds.
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Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus Birds of the Philippines pg.127