| Male shrikes in Israel's Negev Desert impale snails and nest-building materials onto thorns to attract mates. |
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| Shrike babblers were originally described as shrikes, because of their hooked bill, but have been subsequently placed among babblers. |
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| The coral-billed nuthatch belongs to a family of birds called the vanga shrikes, found only on Madagascar. |
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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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| Baboons barked an alarm and thereafter bulbuls, warblers, shrikes, robins and other feathered choirs begun to sing. |
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| A pair of woodchat shrikes were carrying food and hanging around a couple of bushes. |
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| In spring especially they come alive with collared fly catchers, woodchat shrikes and huge flocks of all kinds of warblers. |
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| The dawn chorus is a medley of warblers and shrikes, and, always from the same tree, the klu-klu-klu of a green woodpecker. |
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| Red-collared Widowbird females are unable to displace the shrikes, and no physical attacks or mobbing behavior was ever observed. |
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| Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen. |
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| There are plenty of birds too including shrikes, stonechats and larks, and butterflies including swallowtails, and in the woodland glades, Camberwell beauties. |
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| 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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| What about threatened species.... honeyeaters, lorikeets and cockatoos, with Asian sunbirds, shrikes and flycatchers and Wallacean fruit doves and flowerpeckers? |
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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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| Thus Veillot's families were similar to the Linnaean genera, with the difference that shrikes were no longer included amongst the birds of prey. |
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| Mainland and migratory birds include the Eurasian wryneck, Rosy Starling, Common Starling, shrikes, Wheatears, eagles and falcons, among others. |
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| During my short drive I saw red-shouldered hawks, northern caracara, swallow-tailed kites, burrowing owls, and loggerhead shrikes. |
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| Loggerhead shrikes and northern harriers frequent the area, and during the winter, sandhill cranes stalk insects. |
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| Shrikes use their hooked bills to break the necks of vertebrate prey. |
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| LeBaron said loggerhead shrikes are in trouble all over the country. |
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| Most passerines are omnivorous, while the shrikes are carnivorous. |
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| Foraging Perch and Patch Selection by Loggerhead Shrikes in Natural Habitat. |
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| Majestic Great Grey Shrikes have arrived in their biggest numbers for several years. |
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| A Jack Snipe was at RSPB Conwy and two Great Grey Shrikes remain at World's End. |
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| Rangers in Clocaenog Forest, Clwyd, have recorded at least three rare great grey shrikes, known as the butcher bird because of its violent feeding habits. |
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| Shrikes are passerine birds known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns. |
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| Among mainland and migratory birds that have been found in the area are Eurasian Wryneck, Rosy Starling, Common Starling, Shrikes, Wheatears, eagles, falcons, etc. |
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| Loggerhead Shrikes and Say's Phoebes, however, have both shown substantial decreases during the study, and their extirpation from the area may be imminent. |
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| Great Grey Shrikes were at World's End and Llyn Brenig, while the hardy winter residents of Bardsey spotted Hen Harrier, Glaucous Gull and Short-eared Owl last week. |
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