This is a long tailed Shrike bird. Among the shrikes, it is one of the most common in rural Bengal. This bird loves to eat insects and worms in the open field in the villages. It is also called 'butcher' bird because of its food habit. Locally it is called 'Koshai'. Now this bird is sitting over a fine net which is used to cover the green peas plantation. I found this in my village 'Ruppur' (Dist. Nadia, West Bengal, India).
Photo: Abhijit Kar Gupta, Kolkata
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