Field signs. Melky shrike (weight 28-30 g) with relatively short wings and a long tail staggered. As with all shrike, a strong beak, at the end of kryuchkoobrazno bent, the end of nadklyuvya zubtseobrazny bench, legs with sharp claws zagnutymi. Top male sage-brown, fox-head, tail yellowish-brown. Bottom ohristy, forehead, eyebrow and white throat. Female dull, Young darker. Voice - a sharp "check-check" and a resounding "chzhyaa-chzhyaa." Singing - melodichnoe chatter often involves imitation of other birds. Ostorozhen (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980).  Distribution. Bird open and clarified the landscape of Siberia: thickets of bushes and riverine uremia in the steppe, parks, forest groves, sparse forest felling and garey (Rogacheva, 1988). In the mountain reaches of river valleys, which is typical of mixed forest and grassland margins terraced Yenisei and rare in pine borah on these terraces (Sokolov et al, 1983; Petrov, Rudkovsky, 1985).
In Minusinsk Basin is found wherever there is a tree or shrub vegetation. Slot in the park forests and thickets of shrubs Usinskoy basin. Common, many places in the forest. The most typical for podtaygi and southern taiga. At Kozulskoy plain its nesting numbers in Berezovo-aspen groves, alternating with meadows, was 27 individuals / km 2 (Naumov, 1960). The wild mowing, cutting and shelkopryadnikah yuzhnotaezhnogo Priangarya zhulany also numerous: by cutting down on the ground dark forest - 56 individuals / km 2 in the pine cuttings - about 159 (Vladyshevsky, 1975; Vladyshevsky, Shaparev, 1976). According to the U.S. Ravkin (1984), zhulan in Priangare many in the recent felling and redinah in pine borah (43 specimens / km 2) and the wild taiga slash areas (14 species). Very high number of zhulana was in the upper river. Keti higher. Makovsky (58 o 15 'N); here shelkopryadnike pair met on average at 70 meters from one another (Moskvitin et al, 1977). In the southern eniseyskoy taiga (59-60 o N) such high numbers not seen anywhere else: here zhulan in gnezdovoe time was common in the flood plain lesolugovoy Yenisei and pine ryamah (1 and 2 specimens / km 2) (Bursky, Vakhrushev , 1983). In eniseyskoy average taiga and north of the spread zhulana associated with sparse woods, in large measure coincide with the most modified prieniseyskoy man band. For Peace (62 o 15 'N) zhulan - a rare, sometimes ordinary bird. Every year, nest on mirnovskoy clearing; Not rare to slash areas and the transitional swamps in the river basins and Varlamovki Sarchihi. In the basin of the river. Birobchany (Podkamennoy Tunguska basin, Tsentralnosibirsky Reserve) Siberian zhulan was in 1986, many in the valley of Gary. In eniseyskoy northern taiga rare, but the nest to the north sub (Angutiha, 66 o 10 'N). Found zhulan and eniseyskoy forest (68-69 o N), where he will probably slot in the floodplain forests, thickets and diluted with Yenisei, the number 2 in the second half of August 1977 amounted to flood-osier olhovnikovyh in the bush Southern forest (Ust-Hantayka) 4 special / km 2, ibid in redkostoynyh Berezovo-fir forests - 2, and larch-birch woodlands in a typical forest (Nikolskoye) - 2 special / km 2 (Rogacheva et al, 1983) . In the mountains Putorana so far to the north could not be found: it is very rare in the extreme northern boreal forest from Norilsk and lakes in the basin of the river. Fish in the forest, does not go (Krechmar, 1966). At Hantayskom Lake (68 o 30 'N) in summer 1960, met vyvodki zhulanov (Syroechkovsky, 1961). Proved to nesting in the extreme northern taiga in the upper river. Turuhan, the lake. Yazev (67 o 10's. Rd.): 30 July 1978. here was produced young, not fully fledged bird (Rogacheva et al, 1987). Phenology. Priletaet of Krasnoyarsk by 1 June, the latest masonry - June 18, sletki - the second decade of July. AV Krechmar (1966) from the lake. Keta July 22 found the nest of large chicks and 27 July saw the flight of young (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Reproduction. The nest in a tree, bush, rarely on the ground. Masonry - 4-7 pinkish or whitish spots with burovatymi eggs (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Nutrition. Feeds the animal food, mostly insects but also small Vertebrates: birds, mammals, frogs, lizards. It is collecting food stocks by nakalyvaniya extracted animal pins or bitch (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980).    
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