Red-tailed shrike

Red-tailed shrike
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
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.

Gallery

At the Zambezi river, Mozambique
Eggs MHNT

References

^ Template:IUCN
^ 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

[1] Template:IUCN

[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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