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, Vögel 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: breeds western and northern Europe eastward to western Siberia; winters to Türkiye and the Caucasus
• Lanius excubitor homeyeri: Balkan Peninsula to southern Ural Mountains and western Siberia
• Lanius excubitor leucopterus: western Siberia to Yenisey River
• Lanius borealis: breeds central to eastern Siberia, southward to northwestern China and northwestern Mongolia to Sakhalin and Kuril Islands, and 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 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: Iberian Peninsula and southern France
• Lanius excubitor elegans: northern Sahara (Mauritania to Sinai Peninsula and Red Sea)
• Lanius excubitor algeriensis: Morocco (north of Atlas Mountains), coastal northern Algeria, and Tunisia
• Lanius excubitor koenigi: central and eastern Canary Islands
• Lanius excubitor leucopygos: southern Sahara and Sahel from Mauritania to western and central Sudan
• Lanius excubitor aucheri: eastern Sudan southward to northern Somalia; southern Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Arabian Peninsula eastward to Iran
• Lanius excubitor buryi: Yemen
• Lanius excubitor uncinatus: Socotra
• Lanius excubitor lahtora: eastern Pakistan and northern India
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