The male Woodchat Shrike has a reddish-orange head and striking black-and-white markings. During breeding it hunts insects in open, sparsely wooded places, then winters in Africa.
Adult males have a reddish-orange crown and nape, a black face, and conspicuous white shoulder feathers. Females have weaker color contrast, and juveniles have scaly-looking plumage.
On its breeding grounds it watches from a perch and swoops down on large insects on the ground. After breeding it migrates to winter south of the Sahara in Africa.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.