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Red-backed Shrike


Red-backed Shrike
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Copyright: Marx Kol (Marx44) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 59 W: 72 N: 279] (1768)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-09-05
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon EOS 30 D, Canon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Exposure: f/7.1, 1/1000 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-09-06 8:37
Viewed: 210
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Red-backed Shrike - female (Lanius collurio) is a carnivorous passerine bird and member of the shrike family Laniidae.

This bird breeds in most of Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa. Its range is contracting, and it is now probably extinct in Great Britain as a breeding bird, although it is frequent on migration. It is named as a protected bird in Britain under a Biodiversity Action Plan; its decline is due to overuse of pesticides and scrub clearance due to human overpopulation. It breeds in open cultivated country with hawthorn and dog rose.

This 16-18 cm long migratory bird eats large insects, small birds, voles and lizards. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder".

The general colour of the male’s upper parts is reddish. It has a grey head and a typical shrike black stripe through the eye. Underparts are tinged pink, and the tail has a black and white pattern similar to that of a wheatear. In the female and young birds the upperparts are brown and vermiculated. Underparts are buff and also vermiculated.
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Hi, Marx,

lovely capture! excellent details, colours and composition. tfs.

chrs,
Man Yee

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  • iti Gold Star Critiquer [C: 71 W: 0 N: 5] (382)
  • [2008-09-07 1:22]

Ahoj Marx,
Ladny Lanius (Česky Ťuhýk obecný),zrovna sem na T.N. dal taky toho sameho a dokonce taktez samici.

Zdravim a preji dobre svetlo
Jiri.

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  • cloud Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 117 W: 63 N: 255] (2051)
  • [2008-09-08 5:52]

Witaj Ziomku,
Bardzo udane, znakomita ostrosc i poza ptaka.
Pozdrawiam, Pawel

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