Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Long-tailed Shrike
Lanius schach
- uncommon
- 48 km/h
- Least Concern
Sits like a hunter on the highest twig of the thornbush, tail twitching, watching for movement in the grass below. The empty cricket on the fence-wire spike is its work.
- Population
- large and stable across a vast range
- Habitat
- open scrub, hedgerows, cultivated fields, farm edges across South, Southeast, and East Asia
- Diet
- large insects, lizards, small rodents, small birds; impales prey on thorns and barbed wire
- Size
- 0.25 m
- Wingspan
- 0.3 m
