March 6 9:30
Employees of Krasnoyarsk Pillars shared facts about the shrike.
According to experts, this bird is small in size, but has a “severe disposition.” And most visitors to the national park may never have seen a shrike.
“The gray shrike prefers to settle in island forests, sparse forests with clearings, forest edges, clearings, burnt areas, raised swamps with rare trees among the taiga, forest-steppe groves, forest plantations along roads, gardens, and rarely shrubs in the steppe. In short, the taiga is not close and uninteresting for shrikes. And in winter they prefer to migrate to the south of Europe, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Primorye. Although occasionally winter meetings take place on the periphery of the national park, along river banks, in fields and near cordons,” the national park said.
Shrikes feed on mouse-like rodents and small birds. And in the summer they will switch to large insects: beetles, grasshoppers, grasshoppers.
The first mention of gray shrikes in the Krasnoyarsk Territory dates back to 1911. Ornithologist Tugarinov classifies it as an ordinary inhabitant of the Krasnoyarsk district, which, however, is not often encountered. Then he noted that observations of the way of life are insignificant.
Now the situation has changed, and much more is known about the nesting of these birds. As a rare species, the gray shrike is listed in the Red Book of Russia.
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