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Shikra |
Accipiter
badius |
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regional races (polytypic)
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-A.
b. cenchroides |
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-A. b. dussumieri |
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-A. b. badius |
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The
Shikra is very common throughout the whole of India spreading to Ceylon,
Assam, Burmah and Malayana; also to Afghanistan, and probably other
parts of Asia. It frequents open jungles, groves, garden and avenues.
It either takes a low stealthy fight along the edges of a wood, garden
or hedge row and pounces on any unwary bird or lizard or soars high
in circles and pounces down when it sees any prey. Its general food
appears to be lizards but it frequently seizes small birds, rats or
mice and sometimes does not disdain a large grasshopper.
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