Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Long-tailed Shrike
Lanius schach
- tidak umum
- 48 km/h
- Risiko rendah
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.
- Populasi
- No single global figure has been published; global trend listed as unknown; regional counts describe it as common to abundant, e.g. roughly 10,000-100,000 breeding pairs estimated in China alone
- Habitat
- Open, dry country — scrub, grassland, cultivated fields, plantations, gardens, and lightly wooded areas; low forest dependency; occurs from sea level up to roughly 3,000-4,300 m in parts of its range
- Fakta menarik
- The Long-tailed Shrike is a talented vocal mimic that incorporates other birds' calls into its own song, and — true to the shrike family's "butcherbird" nickname — it impales captured prey on thorns or barbed wire to hold it in place while feeding.
- Sebaran
- Very wide-ranging across Asia, from Kazakhstan/Afghanistan through the Indian subcontinent, China, and Southeast Asia to Indonesia and New Guinea; northern/temperate populations migrate south in winter while tropical populations are largely resident; rare vagrant to Europe and elsewhere
- Makanan
- Carnivorous generalist predator: large insects, lizards, small snakes, amphibians, small birds and their eggs, rodents, crabs, and occasionally fish; sometimes eats fruit (e.g. neem); like other shrikes, impales prey on thorns or barbed wire to store or tear it apart; also known to kleptoparasitize other birds
- Ukuran
- 0,25 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,3 m
- Masa hidup
- 2,5 tahun
