Brown Shrike

Lanius cristatus

Description

Lanius cristatus is a migratory bird, with a brown base color with a brown crown and upper body. On the forehead and eyebrows are white, there is a wide black eye strip. The lower body is white and dark yellow, iris brown, black beak, and blackish gray legs. In juvenile birds, the feathers have a fish-scale pattern, which looks different from the basic color. As you get older, this scale pattern will disappear into adult fur. Especially for puppies, the body color looks brown-blackish

Population Size

Unknown

Life Span

-

WEIGHT​

Male species are 27 - 34 grams and 28 - 37 grams in females

LENGTH

17 – 20 cm

Di

Diurnal

In

Insectivorest

Mi

Migratory

Classification

KINGDOM

:

Animalia

PHYLUM

:

Chordata

CLASS

:

Aves

ORDER

:

Passeriformes

FAMILY

:

Laniidae

GENUS

:

Lanius

SPECIES

:

Lanius cristatus

Distribution

In the migration area, Lanius cristatus visited open agricultural land, including plantation areas up to an altitude of 1500 masl.

Geography

Continent : Asia

Country : Lanius cristatus is a migratory bird to Indonesia that breeds in North Asia from Mongolia to Siberia and in winter migrates to the South, namely India, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, the Greater Sunda, Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi, Maluku and Papua Island.

Habits and Lifestyle

Lanius cristatus is a migratory bird. Their migration times are very regular with their winter arrival to India in August and September and leaving in April. Its beak remains closed when singing and only a throbbing pulse is visible even though the bird moves its tail up and down while singing. used to perch alone on bushes, cables, or the very top of tree branches, to monitor the environment, while looking for flying insects, then immediately grabbed them.

Lifestyle

Migratory

Biome

Forest

Climate Zone

Tropical and sub tropical

Diet and Nutrition

Its main food is insects, but sometimes it also preys on small animals such as mice, frogs, grasshoppers, and small birds such as the genus, as well as other small animals on the ground.

Diet : Insektivora

Mating Habits

The breeding season for Lanius cristatus is late May or June and breeding habitats range from taiga, forest to semi-desert where they build nests in trees or shrubs, laying two to six eggs.

Reproduction session : May or June

Incubation periods: –

Independent age : –

Baby name : –

Baby carrying : 2 – 6 eggs

Population

Population status : Least Concern (LC)

NE

DD

LC

NT

VU

EN

CR

EW

EX

Population number​

This species has a very wide range, and therefore does not approach the Vulnerability threshold and is evaluated as “least concern”

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Reference

  1. MacKinnon, J. 1991 . Fields Guide to the Birds Of Java and Bali. Gadjah Mada University Press. Yogyakarta.
  2. Lanius cristatus on The IUCN Red List site
  3. Brown Shrike on Wikipedia article