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Hello.
Recently in Tenerife I saw a shrike which I assumed was southern grey shrike, split from great grey. However, on recieving my copy of the new edition of Collins Bird Guide, it seems that the Canaries ssp has been put back into great grey and the Spanish birds are now a seperate species, Iberian grey shrike. This is the first I have heard about this. I thought that, roughly, the southern ssp's of great grey were now southern grey. What's going on? What happened to southern grey shrike?
Recently in Tenerife I saw a shrike which I assumed was southern grey shrike, split from great grey. However, on recieving my copy of the new edition of Collins Bird Guide, it seems that the Canaries ssp has been put back into great grey and the Spanish birds are now a seperate species, Iberian grey shrike. This is the first I have heard about this. I thought that, roughly, the southern ssp's of great grey were now southern grey. What's going on? What happened to southern grey shrike?