Red-tailed 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
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Binomial name | |
Lanius phoenicuroides Schalow, 1875
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Breeding range of Lanius (isabellinus) phoenicuroides
Breeding range of Lanius isabellinus
Overwintering range
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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.
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
Cuculus canorus in a clutch of Lanius phoenicuroides - MHNT
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International. (2016). "Lanius phoenicuroides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T103718714A104092963. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103718714A104092963.en. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ 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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Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Lanius
- Birds of Central Asia
- Birds of Africa
- Birds of Western Asia
- Birds described in 1875