White-headed goggles
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White-headed spectacled shrike ( Prionops plumatus ) |
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The white-crested helmetshrike ( Prionops plumatus ) is up to 25 centimeters high representatives of passerines .
Appearance
The birds are colored white on the belly, chest and head, while the back and wings are colored black. The legs are reddish and the beak is black. The yellow to orange ring around the eye and the white to light gray hood on the head are particularly striking. The sexes have the same plumage.
distribution and habitat
This species occurs in the open heathland and grasslands of sub-Saharan Africa, but also inhabits man-made environments such as orchards and arable land.
Way of life
The birds live together in smaller groups of ten or more individuals. The birds are ambulance hunters and spot their prey such as insects, other invertebrates and their larvae from elevated locations, individual standing branches and pounce on them. Their calls are very diverse, loud and serve to maintain group cohesion and to bond with partners.
Reproduction
During the breeding season, these birds form smaller nesting colonies. The nest, which consists of grass and other plant fibers and is padded with spider silk, is placed in the forks of higher trees. The clutch comprises 2 to 6 white-pink or light blue eggs with brown spots and is incubated and cared for by both parents for 14 days.
Danger
Due to its wide distribution, the IUCN classifies this species as ( Least Concern ) not endangered.
Source
- Ann Baggaley (ed.): Lexicon of the animals. Translated from the English by Michael Kokoscha. Dorling Kindersley, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8310-1434-7 , p. 115.
- Wilhelm owner (ed.), Erna Mohr: Encyclopedia of the animals. Volume 2, Weltbild, Augsburg 1991, ISBN 978-3-89350-361-2 , pp. 360-361.
- Christopher M. Perrins (ed.): The great encyclopedia of birds. Translated from the English by Christine Barthel, Peter H. Barthel. Orbis, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-572-00810-0 , pp. 258, 260.
- David Burnie (Ed.), Mariele Radmacher-Martens: Animals: The large picture encyclopedia with over 2,000 species. Translated from the English by Gabriele Lehari. Dorling Kindersley, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8310-2232-8 , p. 350.
- Philip Whitfield (ed.): The great world empire of the animals. Planet Medien AG, Zug 1992, ISBN 3-8247-8614-1 , pp. 324-325.
- Jiří Felix (eds.), Jaromír Knotek, Libuše Knotková: African fauna in color. Translated from the Czech by Roland Schür. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1989, p. 73.
Web links
- Prionops plumatus inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015.2. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2015.