shrike in English

noun
1
a songbird with a strong sharply hooked bill, often impaling its prey of small birds, lizards, and insects on thorns.
Because their feet are not large or strong enough to hold prey, shrikes find a crotch in a tree, a thorn, or barbed wire to hang their prey on while they eat.

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1. 12 words related to Butcherbird: shrike, genus Lanius, Lanius, European shrike, Lanius excubitor, Lanius borealis, northern shrike

2. His grandfather keeps a shrike.

3. He does, and Shrike leaves the apartment.

4. Great Cinereous Shrike, or Butcher Bird

5. The shrike lives in lightly wooded country, olive groves and gardens.

6. The shrike impales his foes on the spikes of thorn bushes.

7. Shrike excubitorides Lanius ludovicianus subspecies, excubitorides Loggerhead Warbler, Hooded Wilsonia citrina

8. His only option for such release besides Betty is Mary Shrike.

9. Bedizened was a cloth used to make uniforms that Garris Shrike wore

10. I don't think the Shrike killed that girl in the field.

11. It is sometimes known as the long-tailed shrike, but this is to be discouraged, since it invites confusion with the long-tailed shrike, Lanius schach, of tropical southern Asia.

12. Any of various birds, especially the shrike, that impale their prey on thorns.

13. 14 Young Solo earned his keep for Shrike doing a variety of unsavory jobs.

14. 7 Any of various birds, especially the shrike, that impale their prey on thorns.

15. An Old World shrike(Lanius senator) having black and white plumage with a reddish crown.

16. Butcherbird - large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns

17. Young Solo earned his keep for Shrike doing a variety of unsavory jobs.

18. Mary will kiss him because she hates Shrike, but will not sleep with him.

19. It is slightly smaller and darker than the great grey shrike, and prefers dry open country.

20. "I think I shall tell you the story of the Leopard and the Shrike, " I said.

21. Butcherbird definition: a shrike , esp one of the genus Lanius Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

22. At the door to her apartment, they kiss, but she is afraid Shrike will hear them.

23. Solo longed to learn more about his parents, but Shrike kept all information from him.

24. He thinks how Shrike will ridicule him at the speakeasy , telling him to give his readers stones.

25. AGM-45 Shrike is an American anti-radiation missile designed to home in on hostile anti-aircraft radar.

26. The army air force also order 900 of these aircraft, designated as the A-25 Shrike, but they decided not to use them.

27. In truth, Han spent most of his childhood in the service of Garris Shrike, the leader of a trading clan that used abandoned street urchins as beggars and petty thieves.

28. Into this turbulent situation come those who will be the last seven pilgrims to make the journey to the Time Tombs and the Shrike, there to ask one wish of it.

29. The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company Model 59B YA-10 was a 1930s United States test and development version of the A-8 Shrike ground-attack aircraft using various radial engines in place of the inline Vee.

30. ‘The first one is a shrike Babbler genus (Pteruthius).’ ‘Two wren Babblers species, Napothera crassa and Kenopia striata (the Striped Wren Babbler) are endemic to the island of Borneo.’ ‘Named Bugun liocichla, the small bird is described as a type of Babbler, a diverse family of …

31. ‘The Bittern, a brown heron, came close to dying out six years ago and conservationists feared there were only 11 ‘booming’ males left.’ ‘For every obvious crossbill, razorbill, greenfinch, woodpecker, warbler, treecreeper, swift or flycatcher there is a mysterious wigeon, garganey, gadwall, Bittern, siskin, pipit, shrike or twite.’

32. Though many bird species hunt, kill, and eat other animals—from the shrike, a songbird also known as the Butcherbird, who kills and then uses thorns to skewer other birds to store them prominently for a later meal and attract a mate, to the worm-eating robin—birds of prey are exclusively predatory.

33. ‘The Asian ‘nonbabbler’ group is the shrike Babblers, genus Pteruthius (two of five species studied), which are placed among the outgroups in all analyses.’ ‘The Pomatorhinini include two groups of Asian Babblers, scimitar Babblers and wren Babblers.’ ‘They are accompanied by a motley bunch of red-vented bulbuls and jungle

34. Antbird: 1 n any of various dull-colored South American birds that feeding on ants some following army ant swarms Synonyms: ant bird Types: ant thrush a kind of Antbird ant shrike Antbirds superficially resembling shrikes Hylophylax naevioides , spotted Antbird a kind of Antbird Type of: tyrannid a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni