'Isabelline Shrike', adult, Jahra Farms, December 2nd 2013

In Kuwait, wintering individuals of the 'Isabelline Shrike' complex are deemed to be near-exclusively of the nominate form isabellinus or 'Daurian Shrike' (see adult male of this form here). In the individual above, the warm brown upperparts are a better match with phoenicuroides or 'Turkestan Shrike' though the lack of a contrasting 'rufous' cap, the rather pale lores, a poorly defined supercilium, a pale base to the bill and the presence of a peachy wash on the underparts arguably make the diagnosis uncertain.

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