The giant grey shrike (''Lanius giganteus'') is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family Laniidae. It is found in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. Its natural

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is temperate

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s. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the

Chinese grey shrike The Chinese grey shrike (''Lanius sphenocercus'') is a species of bird in the family Laniidae. It is found in China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, and the Russian Far East. Its natural habitat is temperate forest A forest is ...

(''Lanius sphenocercus''), but was split as a distinct species by the

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in 2021.

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