Black-winged cuckooshrike
Black-winged cuckooshrike | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Campephagidae |
Genus: | Lalage |
Species: | L. melaschistos
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Binomial name | |
Lalage melaschistos (Hodgson, 1836)
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Synonyms | |
Coracina melaschistos |
The black-winged cuckooshrike (Lalage melaschistos), also known as lesser grey cuckooshrike or dark grey cuckooshrike, is a species of
Distribution
They breed in summer in mountains from 300–2450 meters and migrate altitudinally or south in winter. It is distributed from Northeast Pakistan through the lower Himalayan region (Uttarakhand, Nepal, Arunachal Pradesh and into the hills of NE Myanmar continuing to China and Southeast Asia. It winters in the foothills, occasionally longer distances south west to northern parts of peninsular India and east to Orissa, Bengal and Bangladesh, but may travel as far south as Kerala).[2]
Habitat: Breeds in deciduous and broad-leaved evergreen forest but winters in open forest, groves, singly or in pairs. They are also known to join mixed feeding parties. Their diet consists mainly of caterpillars, beetles and other bugs.
Description
A medium-sized, dark cuckoo-shrike with unbarred, grey underparts.
- Male: dark grey above; contrasting black wings and tail. Wide white feather tips on underside of tail.
- Female: Palers with faint barring on underside[3]
- Call: Loud twit twit to we, descending in scale.
- Diet: mainly invertebrates.
- Nests in tree.
References
- . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Taylor, B. (2005). Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina melaschistos). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.) (2014). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/57880 on 7 March 2015).
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ISBN 978-0-691-11496-5.