For the purposes of our bird news services, this species is classed as Scarce: broadly speaking, species that are covered in British Birds' annual review of scarce species (and forms of similar rarity).

Riverside Nature Park, Angus/Dundee 20/05/13	Riverside Nature Park, Angus/Dundee 20/05/13	Lowestoft, Suffolk 19/05/13	Seaton Sluice, Northumbs 19/05/13	Seaton Sluice, Northumbs 19/05/13
Seaton Sluice, Northumbs 19/05/13	Seaton Sluice, Northumbs 19/05/13	Lowestoft, Suffolk 19/05/13	Whitburn, Durham 19/05/13	Landguard NR, Suffolk 18/05/13
Lowestoft, Suffolk 19/05/13	Landguard NR, Suffolk 18/05/13	Landguard NR, Suffolk 18/05/13	Fair Isle, Shetland 16/05/13	Fair Isle, Shetland 18/05/13
Landguard NR, Suffolk 18/05/13	Reculver, Kent 17/05/13	Greece 01/05/13	Greece 01/05/13	Greece 01/05/13
Seaburn, Durham 15/05/13	Scalby Beck, N Yorks 15/05/13	Greece 24/04/13	Greece 02/05/13	Seaton Common, Cleveland 12/05/13

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Red-backed Shrike breeds in the following countries (Bird News Extra subscribers will see population statistics and information on trends for each country, and a map of population densities):

Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Lichtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Moldova
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia and Montenegro
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine

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	RSPB: Bumper breeding season for butcher bird	Tuesday 27th September 2011
	Red-backed Shrikes have another successful breeding season on Dartmoor.   read on
	RSPB: Butcherbirds return to breed in England	Friday 10th September 2010
	Round-the-clock protection has ensured the first successful breeding of Red-backed Shrikes in England for 18 years.   read on
	Overseas Days to Remember: Birding in East Africa - Lesser Kestrels and Red-backed Shrikes	Tuesday 28th May 2002
	Birding abroad can often be an eye-opener, in terms of culture, scenery and unfamiliar birds. However, it can also provide some fantastic spectacles of some of our scarcer species and rarities. Peter Turner recounts two exceptional events from the 1970s when he was in East Africa.

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