shrike|shrikes in English

noun

[ʃraɪk]

any of a number of insectivorous birds having a strong hooked and toothed bill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

16. 14 Young Solo earned his keep for Shrike doing a variety of unsavory jobs.

17. 7 Any of various birds, especially the shrike, that impale their prey on thorns.

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

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

20. 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

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

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

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

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

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