Red-tailed shrike

Red-tailed shrike
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Laniidae
Genus: Lanius
Species: L. phoenicuroides
Binomial name
Lanius phoenicuroides
Schalow, 1875
     Breeding range of Lanius (isabellinus) phoenicuroides

     Breeding range of Lanius isabellinus      Overwintering range

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.

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Lanius phoenicuroides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Message, Stephen (2001) "The Turkestan Shrike in Kent" Birding World 14(10):432–434
  3. ↑ .Worfolk, Tim (2000) "Identification of red-backed, isabelline and brown shrikes" Dutch Birding 22 (6): 323–362


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