They’d find out if you didn’t. Meet the loggerhead shrike, another example of something that doesn’t fit in. Like finches and sparrows, it is a “songbird” or “perching bird”: a ...

While the prey hangs, the shrike strips the meat off the carcass. Loggerhead shrikes are year-round residents throughout much of southern Missouri. Species status: Loggerhead shrikes are declining ...

Here’s how it works. Why it's awesome: The loggerhead shrike is nicknamed the "butcherbird" thanks to its rather gruesome practice of impaling its prey on sharp thorns, twigs and barbed wire.

The loggerhead shrike may look like any other songbird you might see at a backyard feeder, but its soft exterior masks the heart of a killer. “It really is a bird of prey trapped in the ...

You have just imitated a hunting loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), already considered one of North America’s more ghoulish songbirds for the way it impales its prey carcasses on thorns ...

To say that the loggerhead shrike is “fearsome” is not an overstatement. With an especially adapted beak that is hooked and notched, the shrike kills birds and mammals by biting them behind ...

Their goal? To catch a bird. Not just any bird, though. One that is clever and unique--the loggerhead shrike. The first pasture that we tried, in Greenbrier County, wasn’t a success. An unbanded ...

One sure sign that a shrike is living in an area is a barbed-wire fence skewered with carcasses. Historically loggerhead shrikes nested from Southern Canada through the United States to northern ...

It looked like the work of a loggerhead shrike. Shrikes are birds that at first glance look like mockingbirds, having a similar size, body shape and gray-toned body. Like mockers, shrikes perch on ...

This animal is also known for impaling its victims on stakes. The loggerhead shrike is one of only two regularly occurring shrikes in the U.S., although there are 34 species worldwide. While ...