| A glance at a map shows the woodchat to be well distributed as a summer visitor in much of Europe. |
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| In spring especially they come alive with collared fly catchers, woodchat shrikes and huge flocks of all kinds of warblers. |
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| However I did log a woodchat shrike, numerous barn and red-rumped swallows, a veritable swarm of common swifts, and a common buzzard. |
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| Although the same size as a red-backed shrike, the woodchat gives an impression of being smaller and more compact. |
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| Olive groves and forests of cork oak are the Mediterranean environment of the handsome woodchat. |
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| A pair of woodchat shrikes were carrying food and hanging around a couple of bushes. |
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| The songbird family of shrikes that is responsible for such carnage is well represented by the woodchat shrike, pictured here grappling with a lizard. |
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| Previous May records include woodchat shrike, garganey, Kentish plover and Temminck's stint. |
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| Great spotted cuckoos, woodchat shrikes and alpine swifts accompanied exotic waterbirds such as night herons and black-winged stilts, to the delight of British twitchers. |
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| The dominant species of birds found in the traditional orchard include the little owl, wryneck, woodchat shrike, green woodpecker and collared flycatcher. |
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