Classification

Original description

Citation:
  Linnaeus, C 1758

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.94

Protonym:
  Lanius excubitor

Type locality:
  Europe, restricted to Sweden (Hartert, 1907, Vog. pal. Fauna, 1, (1910), p. 418).

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/112/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  4F4C39218E9D800E

Avibase ID:
  avibase-4F4C3921

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/4F4C3921

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 178511

Geographic range:

• Lanius excubitor excubitor: western and northern Europe to western Siberia
• Lanius excubitor homeyeri {homeyeri or przewalskii}: Balkan Peninsula to southern Ural Mountains and western Siberia
• Lanius excubitor homeyeri (leucopterus): western Siberia to Yenisey River
• Lanius borealis borealis: breeds Alaska and northern Canada, southward to far northern British Columbia and Alberta, northern Ontario and Quebec; winters southern Canada and northern USA
• Lanius borealis mollis: Russian Altai and northwestern Mongolia
• Lanius borealis funereus: western China (Tien Shan Mountains)
• Lanius borealis sibiricus: eastern Siberia to northern Mongolia and Kamchatka Peninsula
• Lanius borealis bianchii: Sakhalin and southern Kuril Islands (northern Japan)
• Lanius meridionalis meridionalis: Iberian Peninsula and southern France
• Lanius meridionalis elegans: northern Sahara (Mauritania to Sinai Peninsula and Red Sea)
• Lanius meridionalis algeriensis: Morocco (north of Atlas Mountains), coastal northern Algeria, and Tunisia
• Lanius meridionalis koenigi: Canary Islands
• Lanius meridionalis [leucopygos or jebelmarrae]: southern Sahara and Sahel from Mauritania to western and central Sudan
• Lanius meridionalis [aucheri or theresae]: eastern Sudan southward to northern Somalia; southern Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Arabian Peninsula eastward to Iran
• Lanius meridionalis buryi: Yemen; vagrant to Djibouti and Ethiopia
• Lanius meridionalis uncinatus: Socotra
• Lanius meridionalis lahtora: eastern Pakistan and northern India
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