📸 PhotoPhoto: Alpsdake · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Bull-headed Shrike
Lanius bucephalus (Bull-headed Shrike · モズ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its body length of 20 cm is almost the same as the short side of an A4 sheet of paper (21 cm) (Comparison).
- 💡 There is a similar, easily confused species, Chik-ttaekkachi (a Korean animal name), which lacks a white supercilium (National List of Species of Korea).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The Bull-headed Shrike is a small raptor-like bird living from central and southern Korea southward, with a white wing patch on the male that shows clearly in flight.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
The male has a brown head, a gray back, and black eye stripes and flight feathers. Its throat, breast, and belly are white and its flanks are pale rufous. The female has a brown head, dense scaly markings on the breast and belly, and no white spot on the wing.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It lives alone or in pairs, builds its nest on tree branches, and lays 6–7 eggs from April to July.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
According to the National List of Species of Korea, it inhabits central and southern Korea southward.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2024) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22704998/264388514
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • doi.org — avilist.v2026
- • iucnredlist.org — 264388514
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000001934 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000001934
- • wikidata.org — Q804145
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Lanius bucephalus.JPG
- • species.nibr.go.kr — mainHome.do
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Zeynel Cebeci · CC BY 4.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Lanius collurio)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.