Abstract: Hunting behaviour and use of different habitat types of a breeding Great Grey Shrike family was observed in a recycled landfill near Eilat, Israel. As Great Grey Shrikes were not observed to breed in the Eilat area for more than a decade, detailed observations of hunting site selection were conducted. Additionally, arthropod abundance and impaled prey items were monitored. The breeding pair established its territory on the boundary of the "Bird Sanctuary", a former recycled landfill, where irrigation has facilitated the growth of dense vegetation inside the park boundary, while outside of it the sparse vegetation characteristic of semideserts is found. Huntings were categorised as either inside or outside of the Bird Sanctuary. White-water traps were applied to measure insect availability inside and outside the Bird Sanctuary. We found that the shrikes foraged preferentially within the Bird Sanctuary (Paired t-test, N=150, t-value: 3.63, P< 0.005). Diversity (revealed by Rényi diversity index) and abundance of arthropods were considerably higher inside the Bird Sanctuary (Wilcoxon Matched-pairs Signed-ranks test, z-value > –2.428, P = 0.0152). The monitoring of impaled prey items revealed that besides insects vertebrates were also taken. Interestingly two specimens of the poisonous Black Cone-headed Grasshopper (Poikylocerus bufonicus) were also impaled and consumed.