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Red-tailed shrike

Species of bird

Summary

Species of bird

The red-tailed shrike or Turkestan shrike (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.

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

image:Lanius phoenicuroides, Vila de Sena, Birding Weto, c.jpg|At the Zambezi river, Mozambique image:Lanius phoenicuroides MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.213.Turkménistan.jpg|Eggs MHNT Cuculus canorus MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.150.34.jpg|Cuculus canorus in a clutch of Lanius phoenicuroides - MHNT

References

BirdLife International.. (2016). "''Lanius phoenicuroides''".
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

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