The Lesser Grey Shrike looks similar to the Great and Southern Grey Shrikes but the black bandit mask extends to a black forehead.
It breeds in southern and south-eastern Europe through to Central Asia and winters in southern Africa.
The juvenile Lesser Grey Shrike has yet to develop its black forehead with its adult plumage.
The superb photos of the juvenile Lesser Grey on this page, including with its parent, were taken by Alexandra Makhnina in the Almaty Region of Kazakhstan.
Lesser Grey Shrike parent feeding young.
In this extraordinary sequence that Alexandra Makhnina calls "Broad Daylight Robbery" a shrike parent has just given an
insect to its young; one of the Rose-coloured Starlings perched in the same tree flies in and steals the insect from the baby.