| This probably explains the names of the chough, crake, hoopoe, kittiwake, pipit, shrike, twite and whimbrel. |
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| The young also cross paths with the loggerhead shrike, a bird that impales its prey before eating. |
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| The butcher-bird is today's loggerhead shrike, found only rarely anywhere in Massachusetts now. |
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| For bird watchers there are Somali bee-eaters, rosy-patched shrike, golden-breasted starling and golden pipit. |
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| Contrary to what its name suggests, the black-faced cuckoo-shrike is not related to either the cuckoo or the shrike. |
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| The shrike had pinned smaller birds on the tree's black thorns and the sun had stripped them of their feathers. |
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| Forays off the beaten path led me to a common stonechat, a white wagtail, a plain leaf warbler, and a number of species in the shrike family. |
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| Although the same size as a red-backed shrike, the woodchat gives an impression of being smaller and more compact. |
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| However I did log a woodchat shrike, numerous barn and red-rumped swallows, a veritable swarm of common swifts, and a common buzzard. |
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| Also known as the gray shrike, the great butcher-bird is known for securing its prey to thorns so that it can more easily tear it apart. |
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| The best-known and best-studied duettists are certain African shrikes, notably the tropical boubou shrike Laniarius aethiopicus. |
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| Some representative bird species include red-throated loon, northern shrike, and common redpoll. |
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| Birds such as the ibis, shrike, and grosbeak can be found in Sao Tome and Principe. |
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| The horned lizard Phrynosoma mcalli apparently uses the horns on its head to deter the shrike, a bird fond of impaling lizards on thorns or barbed wire for later consumption. |
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| The songbird family of shrikes that is responsible for such carnage is well represented by the woodchat shrike, pictured here grappling with a lizard. |
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| Natural vegetation would be grassland and shrub. Amongst the birds the red-backed shrike and the stonechat are important resident species. |
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| What a beauty he was, with pink waistcoat, highwayman's mask, chestnut wings, dove-grey skull-cap: the butcher bird, the red-backed shrike, guarding his larder. |
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| The great grey shrike is the latest in a growing list of rare birds to visit Clocaenog. |
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| Previous May records include woodchat shrike, garganey, Kentish plover and Temminck's stint. |
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| Three bird species have disappeared, the Kentish Plover, Wryneck, and red-backed shrike. |
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| We cannot tell the piping plover to build its nest only on a protected lakefront in Saskatchewan any more than we can tell the loggerhead shrike to stay away from cattle grazing areas. |
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| Some of these include burrowing owl, swift fox, sage grouse, loggerhead shrike, black-tailed prairie dog, yellow-bellied blue racer, and the ferruginous hawk. |
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| When a shrike lands on the trap, monofilament nooses entangle its toes. |
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| Aided by a tomial, or cutting, tooth on the upper beak, the shrike can quickly cut through the spinal cord, partially paralyzing its quarry, making it easier to kill the animal. |
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| What about a sprague's pipit or the prairie loggerhead shrike? |
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| It is also home to a number of species at risk including the burrowing owl, swift fox, Sprague's pipit, loggerhead shrike, greater sage-grouse and northern leopard frog. |
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| These gorges shelter some Mediterrean birds rarely found in the Tarn and The tarn and the Garonne, such as the warbler, the passerinette, the pipit rousseline, the shrike with its russet-red head and the small duke owl. |
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| For bird-watchers, bird varieties like the black swift, the red-backed shrike or the alpine accentor will put in an appearance if you know how to be quiet. |
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| A scarce visitor was a great grey shrike, which has the habit of sticking its kills on to thorns of trees and bushes. |
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| Areas like Sutton Park can attract wintering woodcock and perhaps something really special, like a great grey shrike. |
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| A great grey shrike has been spotted flying and strutting around Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, catching small birds, mice and insects. |
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| Among those that can be viewed are the blue grossbeak, ash-throated flycatcher and the loggerhead shrike. |
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| The dominant species of birds found in the traditional orchard include the little owl, wryneck, woodchat shrike, green woodpecker and collared flycatcher. |
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| A Blue Peter ornithology handbook is a must-have if you don't know your blacknecked grebe from your red-backed shrike. |
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| Among the rarest birds we saw were the stone curlew and the great grey shrike. |
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| He demonstrated this in front of the British Ornithologists Union by inserting two shrike feathers into a cork which he then whirled around his head on a string. |
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| Feral livestock, including pigs, goats, and sheep, pose a threat to many of the species, including the San Clemente loggerhead shrike and Channel Islands spotted skunk. |
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| The Navy's natural resources programs have dramatically benefitted the San Clemente loggerhead shrike, once considered the most endangered bird in North America. |
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| At the same time, the foxes on San Clemente Island were identified as a predator on the loggerhead shrike, a federally protected avian species that nests on that island. |
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| Birdwatchers have had an exciting start to the new year, with a great grey shrike, found at the very end of last year, remaining in the Margam Forest. |
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| Foremost among these recovery efforts is a world-class captive propagation and reintroduction program for the endangered San Clemente loggerhead shrike. |
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| They were a yellow-browed warbler from Siberia' a white-rumped sandpiper from North America' a cattle egretfrom southern Europe and a red-backed shrike from Scandinavia. |
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| The preserves are home to several rare wildlife species, including bald eagles and loggerhead shrike, as well as numerous other animal and plant species. |
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