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Rufous-backed Shrike (Lanius schach). Also commonly known as the Long-Tailed Shrike .
Field Characters:Forehead and a band through the eyes black. Head grey. Lower back and rump bright rufous. Underparts washed with rufous. Typical stout hooked bill. Sexes alike. Singly, in open lightly-wooded and scrub country.
Habits: Found in the following habitats according to IUCN: 1.4 Forest - Temperate 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane.
Call: Harsh, scolding notes. In breeding season a pretty rambling song of considerable duration uttered in nature of soliloquy. A very accomplished mimic of calls and noises heard in its habitat, quick at learning them and with a retentive memory. Harsh squeals of a frog caught by a snake, yelps of newly born puppy, tame grey partridge's call prefaced by its human owner's whistles, and calls of numerous birds even long after many have migrated, are imitated to perfection.
Food: Grasshoppers and large insects, lizards, young mice, etc.
Nesting Season: - February to July, locally variable. Nest: deep compact cup of twigs, grass, wool, rags, etc., in fork of branch of small tree usually under 15 ft. Eggs -- 3 to 6, somewhat smaller than Grey Shrike's, but more or less identical with them in colour and markings.
Size: Bulbul + - ; Myna -
Conservation Status: Lanius schach is classified as LC on the IUCN Red List.
Species Authority: The species authority, or the person who first described Lanius schach is listed by the IUCN Red List as Linnaeus, 1758
Distribution (by country):
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Province of China, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Viet Nam
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Laniidae
PHOTO TAKEN NEAR GUJRANWALA PUNJAB, PAKISTAN.
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I uploaded my new picture after a long time. Actually i had been busy in my new Job, which i started very first time after completed an Engineering course. The factory name is Metetax (Pvt) Ltd. Its is Pakistan's second largest Packaging company and they appointed me as a supervisor in Quality Assureance Department and i am happy with my job.
So, I first time did that kind of work (zipperhead) in Adobe Photoshop CS. But i don't know why Flickr is not supporting my picture's original colors? Its showing sharp colored.
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