Wednesday, 12 June 2013

WOOD-SHRIKE 1/1 - Large Wood-shrike


 Large Wood-shrike

This bird is adaptive to temperate forest to subtropical lowland and highland forest of Asia  of the continent (upto China/Bhutan) and India side.

In peninsula Malaysia it is common to sight it  at our many highland resort.





As you can see it is quite a plain looking bird with a black nape It has a plum body though length wise coming in at  8 inches ie short tailed.  It is gregarious and do feed in bird waves with other species. Forages & feed on grubs and insects they find on leaves and branches

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