Red-tailed shrike
The red-tailed shrike or Turkestan shrike,[2] (Lanius phoenicuroides) is a member of the shrike family (Laniidae). It was formerly considered conspecific with the isabelline shrike and the red-backed shrike.
| Red-tailed shrike | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Laniidae |
| Genus: | Lanius |
| Species: | L. phoenicuroides |
| Binomial name | |
| Lanius phoenicuroides Schalow, 1875 | |
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Breeding range of Lanius (isabellinus) phoenicuroides
Breeding range of Lanius isabellinus
Overwintering range | |
Description
The plumage is a sandy colour. It has a red tail.[3]
Range
The red-tailed shrike breeds in south Siberia and Central Asia.
Habits
This migratory medium-sized passerine eats large insects, small birds, rodents and lizards. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a larder. It breeds in open cultivated country, preferably with thorn bushes.
Gallery
At the Zambezi river, Mozambique
Eggs MHNT
References
- BirdLife International (2012). "Lanius phoenicuroides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Message, Stephen (2001) "The Turkestan Shrike in Kent" Birding World 14(10):432–434
- .Worfolk, Tim (2000) "Identification of red-backed, isabelline and brown shrikes" Dutch Birding 22 (6): 323–362
External links
- Oiseaux Pictures
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