shrikes 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. The Australasian butcherbirds are not shrikes, although they occupy a similar ecological niche.

2. It is a shy, often solitary bird which is less conspicuous than most other shrikes.

3. Butcherbird definition, any of various shrikes of the genus Lanius, which impale their prey upon thorns

4. The family includes many species, some of which are called ant shrikes, Ant thrushes, and ant wrens.

5. This is a highly territorial bird which will chase off not only others of the same species, but also shrikes, doves and rollers.

6. Like most other shrikes, it has a distinctive black "bandit-mask" through the eye and is found mainly in open scrub habitats, where it perches on the tops of thorny bushes in search of prey.

7. This page shows answers to the clue Butcherbird, followed by 3 definitions like “Shrikes that impale their prey on thorns”, “Butcherbirds are magpie-like birds in the genus Cracticus” and “Any of several large, carnivorous birds of the genus Cracticus”.

8. The Birddom is also very rich in this park you can see species like vultures, warblers, wood shrikes, white-browed fantail, white-breasted kingfisher, white-eyed buzzard, Tickell’s blue flycatcher, steppe eagle, red-wattled lapwing, red junglefowl, Indian peafowl, mynas, paradise, flycatchers, pigeons, woodpeckers, Malabar pied hornbill

9. Mortality: It seems to me better to get away from the connotations of the word "enemy" and simply to point out that the white-crown is subject to the usual factors that cause attrition in animal populations, whether disease, the complex of factors engendering winter mortality, or direct predation by Accipitrine hawks, shrikes, weasels, and the

10. 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