Northern shrike Lanius excubitor
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Length: 8 inches
Heavy, hooked bill with a pale base to lower mandible
Black cheeks
Pale gray head and back
White underparts with faint gray barring ...
Northern Shrike ( Lanius excubitor )
Northern Shrike, Colony Farm Regional Park, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details) ...
The Northern Shrike (Lanius excubitor), as the name implies, breeds in northern North America across parts of Canada and Alaska.
Northern Shrike, Lanius excubitor
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Where are they found? Asia, Europe, North America ...
Northern Shrike Behaviour
No observations regarding Northern Shrike behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Northern Shrikes ...
Northern Shrike
(Lanius excubitor)
Status: Winter Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2011
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Occurs as an uncommon winter resident.
However, the Northern Shrike will kill more prey than it can immediately eat, and the surplus victims are impaled on barbed wire fences or on the thorns of trees.
Northern Shrike
Adult
Black mask (not just eyestripe)
Thick, hooked dark bill
Black wings with small white patches but no wingbars
Long, black tail with white corners
© Byard Miller, Keene, New Hampshire, March 2008 ...
Northern Shrike - Lanius Excubitor
Led a bird walk today at Las Gallinas ponds. Good weather, good people, and good birds! ...
Picture Northern Shrike
Shrikes belong to the order Passeriformes.
Types of Shrikes include: ...
Northern Shrike - 1 adult along Rte 101 in Hampton, 1 adult at Island
Path, review of my photographs shows the Rte 101 bird had a damaged
tail, and Steve photographed the Island Path bird, so we should be able ...
Northern Shrike
Order: Passeriformes Family: Laniidae
Shrikes are passerine birds known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns.
Birds not usually considered predators of mice do take voles; examples include gulls (Larus spp.), northern shrike (Larius borealis), black-billed magpie (Pica pica), common raven (Corvus corvax), American crow (C. brachyrhynchos), ...
This bird has the same propensity as the Northern Shrike, to stick grasshoppers and other insects on thorns.
Great Grey Shrike or Northern Shrike Lanius excubitor
Southern Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis
Chinese Grey Shrike, Lanius sphenocercus
Grey-backed Fiscal, Lanius excubitoroides
Long-tailed Fiscal, Lanius cabanisi ...
The Loggerhead Shrike is slightly smaller (8-10") than the Northern Shrike. The head and back are a bluish-gray, white below, with black face mask extending over the bill.
Northern Shrike Lanius excubiter: Plum Island, MA, 29 Jan
White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus: Forest Park, Queens, NY, 24 Apr
Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons: Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, 30 Apr ...
 See also: Shrike, Loggerhead Shrike, Perch, Loggerhead, Sparrow
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