Shrikes
A shrike is a passerine bird of the family Laniidae which is known for its habit of catching insects, small birds or mammals and impaling their bodies on thorns.
Shrike-like Cotinga
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Shrike-like Cotinga Laniisoma elegans
(aka Elegant Mourner)
Brazilian name: chibante ...
Shrike
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or butcher bird, predatory songbird found in most parts of the world except Australia and South America.
Shrike, Magpie aka Long-tailed Shrike Corvinella melanoleuca Found: Africa
The Magpie Shrike is alternatively placed as the sole member of genus Urolestes.
Shrikes
Two species are regular in the UK, one of which used to breed; several others are very rare visitors.
Shrikes - Family Laniidae
Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus. Breeder. Fairly common in winter, spring, and fall, and uncommon in summer in all regions.
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A Beginners Guide to North American Shrikes ...
Shrike
Shrike is the common name for predatory birds belonging to the family Laniidae ...
Shrikes require open land with lookout perches for hunting, preferring areas with short vegetation such as pastures, lawns and freshly-plowed fields. They seem to prefer sites with a variety of different types of land uses.
Shrikes prefer to sit on an exposed tree limb looking for prey. They pounce on their prey from either a hovering flight above, or from their perch.
Brown Shrike - Lanius cristatus - Laniidae - Birding in India
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Northern Shrike
Lanius excubitor
The Northern Shrike (Lanius excubitor), as the name implies, breeds in northern North America across parts of Canada and Alaska.
Woodchat shrikes have often been observed taking trapped small birds in mist-nets. A migrant shrike seeking temporary refuge aboard a ship soon began searching behind rope coils to seize fellow travelling willow warblers.
Like all shrikes, the Northern Shrike is also known as the 'butcher bird' because of its unusual practice of impaling prey on thorns or barbed wire, much in the way butchers hang meat in their shops.
Northern Shrike, Colony Farm Regional Park, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Northern Shrike Behaviour
No observations regarding Northern Shrike behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
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This bush-shrike is known only from an area around the town of Gabela (from which it gets its name) in the province of Cuanza Sul, western Angola (2).
Habitat – Gabela bush shrike ...
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 ...
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, Lanius Carolinensis, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iii. p, 57.
LANIUS LUDOVICIANUS, Bonap. Syn., p. 72.
LANIUS EXCUBITOROIDES, American Grey Shrike, Swains. and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 115.
Russet Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus
Described by: Sclater, P. L.; Salvin (1860)
Alternate common name(s): Peruvian Antshrike
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Loggerhead Shrike
Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus
Status Rare transient, very rare in summer and winter. Formerly bred.
Loggerhead Shrike
A Loggerhead Shrike perches near the water. On a very cold day at Whitewater Draw in Southern Arizona, this Shrike seemed more interested in conserving energy than worrying about the photographer stalking him.
Bokmakierie Shrike {Telophorus zeylonus}
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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.
Barred Cuckoo-shrike - profile
Scientific name: Coracina lineata
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
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Loggerhead Shrike
(Lanius ludovicianus)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2001
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Confirmed
1992 to 1996: Confirmed
This species is State Endangered.
The shrikes are small to medium passerines with hooked bills. They are sometimes called "butcher - birds" because of their habit of impaling their prey on thorns. They also cache their prey in crevices of trees.
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 ...
Loggerhead Shrike
Lanius ludovicianus (scientific)
Loon
Horseshoe Crab
Limulus polyphemus (scientific)
Horseshoe crabs spend most of their life out in the ocean.
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 ...
Genus Lanius (shrikes)
Genus Urolestes
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The Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) is one of 30 "true shrikes" in the world, and the only one found exclusively in North America.
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), ...
woodcreepers, ovenbirds, antbirds, tapaculos, cotingas, manakins, tyrant flycatchers, sharpbill, plantcutters, pittas, New Zealand wrens, asities, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, larks, swallows & martins, wagtails & pipits, cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, ...
Shrikes (Family Laniidae)
Vireos (Family Vireonidae)
Crows, Jays and Allies (Family Corvidae)
Larks (Family Alaudidae)
Swallows (Family Hirundinidae)
Chickadees (Family Paridae)
Bushtits (Family Aegithalidae)
Nuthatches (Family Sittidae) ...
Kim Franklin painted the Yellow-crested Helmet-Shrike; from Shrikes & Bush-Shrikes (2000) by Tony Harris (Princeton Univ. Press) ...
: Eastern loggerhead shrike populations are declining. There are probably less than 100 breed pairs from Manitoba to Quebec. Scientists are not certain about the causes of the decline.
prairie falcons, loggerhead shrikes, longnose leopard lizards and striped whipsnakes. Sometimes found in same habitat as flat-tailed horned lizard. Density of 5/ha reported in Nevada (Tanner and Krogh 1973).
Non-Migrant: Y
Locally Migrant: N ...
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The Yellow-eyed Cuckoo-Shrike
(Coracina lineata)
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The true Tapaculo (P. albicollis) has a general resemblance in plumage to the females of some of the smaller Shrikes (Lanius), and to a cursory observer its skin might pass for that of one; ...
While the Black Witch is active primarily at night, with the darkness offering some protection, it sometimes falls prey to birds, for instance, the House Sparrow or the Loggerhead Shrike, according to Quinn.
forest on the island is on the slopes of Gunung Sahendaruman, and is particularly notable because it supports three Critically Endangered species that are found nowhere else (Caerulean Paradise-flycatcher Eutrichomyias rowleyi, Sangihe Shrike-thrush ...
Predators of Florida grasshopper sparrow eggs and nestlings include snakes, skunks and feral hogs. Some nests are destroyed by flooding from rainfall or by wildfires. Hawks and loggerhead shrikes take juveniles and adults.
Animals known to have caught and eaten hummingbirds include cats, small hawks and owls, shrikes, roadrunners, orioles, tanagers, large flycatchers, grackles, herons, gulls, largemouth bass, frogs, spiders, and praying mantises.
Known predators include ringneck snakes, common kingsnakes, deer mice, long-tailed weasels, domestic cats, California thrashers, American robins, and loggerhead shrikes.
In captivity, they readily take flies and mealworms. Their primary predators include snakes and predatory birds, such as small hawks, roadrunners, and loggerhead shrikes. Weasels and skunks may also eat side-blotched lizards.
Plant Invasions: Studies from North America and Europe. Blackhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Bent, A. C. 1950. Life histories of North American wagtails, shrikes, vireos, and their allies. U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 197.
mammals which inhabit the ecosystem include lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, rhinoceros, buffalo, wildebeest, gazelle and a number of other antelope species. Ostriches share the landscape with bustards, hornbills, ox-peckers and shrikes.
 See also: Flycatcher, Warbler, Robin, Sparrow, Finch
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