English: Great Grey Shrike, Northern Shrike
Russian: Серый сорокопут
German: Raubwurger
French: Pie-grieche grise
Mongolian: Үнсэн дунхай
Japanese: オオモズ (O-mozu)

Body length: 22-26 cm
Wing span: 31-33 cm

Passage migrant / wintering
Migration: May-Aug.; Nov.-March

Egg number: 5-7 (occasionally 8-9)
Egg colour: Greenish or buffish with light reddish-brown spots, blotches.
Brood:  1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern

Food: Small vertebrates and terrestrial invertebrates. 

Habitat: Breeding pairs built their nest in trees including Saxaul, elm, poplar and bushes such as Amygdalus, Tamrix and Almond in scattered open bushy habitats in high mountains , river valleys, desert steppe and mountain valleys. The nest is placed at  at fairly low elevations in trees, bushes and higher in taller trees.