English: Rufouse-tailed Shrike, Isabelline Shrike

Russian: Рыжехвостый жулан
Mongolian: Тольт дунхай
German: Isabellwurger
French: Pie-grieche isabelle 

Body length: 16-18 cm
Wing span: 25-28 cm

Passage migrant
Breeding season: May-August

Egg number: 5-6
Egg colour: Greenish or buffish with brown, light reddish-brown spots.
Brood:  1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern

Food: Insects, molluscs, small rodents and fledglings of small passerines.

Habitat: Breeding pairs build their nest in dense trees such as elm, poplar, birch and willow in scattered tall bushy open habitats in mountain steppe and high mountains, tall dense thickets and dense bushes with deciduous trees along  river valleys and mountain valleys in steppe, bushy areas along the edges of mixed forests, and Saxaul forests in the Gobi.