Red-tailed shrike
Introduction 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, Mozambiqueimage:Lanius phoenicuroides MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.213.Turkménistan.jpg|Eggs MHNTCuculus canorus MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.150.34.jpg|''Cuculus canorus''  in a clutch of ''Lanius phoenicuroides'' - MHNT
References
External links * Oiseaux Pictures