The crimson-breasted shrike is non-migratory. #BirdingSunday
It mainly eats insects, gleaning prey from the leaves and trunks of trees, often flying to the ground to feed on ants or some fallen fruit.
The following food items have been recorded in its diet:
Invertebrates
Formicidae (ants)
Coleoptera (beetles)
Lepidoptera (caterpillars)
Fruit
Both sexes construct the nest,
which is a tidy cup made almost entirely of Acacia tree bark,
collected from trunks and branches about 50-90 metres from the nesting site and
lined with grass and rootlets. It is usually bound with spider web to a fork in
the main stem of a plant, or occasionally onto a horizontal branch. Most of the
construction work is done in the early morning, and it is usually complete
after about 4-6 days. Egg-laying
season is from August-january, peaking from October-November.
It lays 2-3 eggs, which are
incubated by both sexes for about 15-17 days.The chicks are fed and brooded by
both parents, leaving the est at about 18-20 days old. Although they forage
independently, they stil come back to roost with their parents, sometimes only
leaving in next years breeding season.
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