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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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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Description
editThe plumage is a sandy colour. It has a red tail.[3]
Range
editThe red-tailed shrike breeds in south Siberia and Central Asia.
Habits
editThis 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
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At the Zambezi river, Mozambique -
Eggs MHNT -
Cuculus canorus in a clutch of Lanius phoenicuroides - MHNT
References
edit- ^ 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
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