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Female red-backed shrike with impaled prey
Female red-backed strikes are scaly below and brown above. Look for their characteristic hooked beaks and habit of impaling their prey on thorns.
Male red-backed shrike with prey
Male red-backed shrikes have grey heads with a black 'bandit's mask'. Their wings and back are red-brown.
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