masked shrike造句

• The masked shrike's preferred habitat is open woodland with bushes and some large trees.
• The masked shrike breeds in its first year, but its average life span is unknown.
• The masked shrike feeds mainly on large insects, although other arthropods and small vertebrates are also caught.
• Masked shrikes are most similar in appearance to woodchat shrikes, but are smaller, more slender and longer-tailed.
• The masked shrike eats mainly large insects, occasionally small vertebrates; it sometimes impales its prey on thorns or barbed wire.
• Juveniles are more similar, but the masked shrike has a longer tail, paler face, and grey back and rump, whereas the woodchat shrike has a sandy back and pale grey rump.
• Adults of the two species are easily distinguished, since the masked shrike has white on its head and a dark rump, whereas the woodchat shrike has a black crown, rusty nape and white rump.
• Despite its relatively small size, the masked shrike has been recorded as killing species such as lesser whitethroat and little swift . Vertebrates are killed by bill blows to the back of the head, and the tomial teeth are then used to separate the neck bones.
• The masked shrike was described by German explorer and naturalist Martin Lichtenstein in 1823 under its current scientific name . " Lanius " is the Latin for a butcher, and comes from the shrikes'habit of impaling prey, reminiscent of a butcher hanging carcasses, The bird was independently described by Dutch Coenraad Temminck in 1824 as " Lanius personatus ", from the Latin " personatus " " masked ", referring, as does the English name, to the bird's appearance, but the older name takes precedence.