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Lanius nubicus · Family Laniidae

Lanius nubicus

Family Laniidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Laniidae
GBIF occurrence records
65,522
Countries and territories with records
85
Masked Shrike
Maskenwürger_(Lanius_nubius)_by_C._Becher.jpg: Claudia Becher derivative work: Berichard (talk) · Lanius nubicus.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Maskenwürger_(Lanius_nubius)_by_C._Becher.jpg: Claudia Beche · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 65,522 occurrence records from 85 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Israel (50.8%), Türkiye (10.2%), Greece (8.5%), Cyprus (5.4%) and the United Arab Emirates (4.4%); together they account for 79.3% of the total. In Israel, this species accounts for 0.5% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Lanius nubicus combines the genus name Lanius with the species epithet nubicus. The Warbla app catalog lists 30 species of the genus Lanius; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Lanius ludovicianus, Lanius collurio and Lanius excubitor.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 34 species of the family Laniidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Lanius ludovicianus. Its record count is 31.8% of the family average (206,182). The family Laniidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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