Black-winged cuckooshrike

Black-winged cuckooshrike
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Campephagidae
Genus: Lalage
Species:
L. melaschistos
Binomial name
Lalage melaschistos
(Hodgson, 1836)
Synonyms

Coracina melaschistos

The black-winged cuckooshrike (Lalage melaschistos), also known as lesser grey cuckooshrike or dark grey cuckooshrike, is a species of cuckooshrike found in South to Southeast Asia. Despite the name, they (cuckooshrikes) are unrelated to either shrikes or cuckoos. They have broad based bills with grey upper parts, black wings, white vent, graduated white-tipped tails, black bills and legs. Females are overall lighter in all taxa.

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

Black-winged cuckooshrike at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India
Female

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

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Lalage melaschistos". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22706636A130420674. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22706636A130420674.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ 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).
  3. ^ Grewal, Bikram; Harvey, Bill; Pfister, Otto (2002). Photographic guide to birds of India. Princeton, NJ, US: Princeton University Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-691-11496-5.


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