Todays click Daurian Shrike (Male) / Isabelline shrike (Lanius isabellinus) 03-Sep-14 9:09:39 AM Shuwaikh Port ,Kuwait The isabelline shrike or Daurian shrike (Lanius isabellinus) is a member of the shrike family (Laniidae). It was previously considered conspecific with the red-backed shrike and red-tailed shrike. 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. The plumage is isabelline, the sandy colour which gives rise to its name. It has a red tail. Young birds can be distinguished from young red-backed shrikes by the much sparser vermiculations on the underparts. Common passage migrant and winter visitor. Widespread in Kuwait’s deserts and farms, this sandy-coloured shrike is easily spotted perching on the top of bushes or fences.
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