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Like eagles and falcons, shrikes are birds of prey. However, they aren’t raptors, but are songbirds. Though shrikes have a sharp, hooked beak, they are small and have weak legs. The little shrike ...

If on a late afternoon walk across an open field you encounter a thorny honey locust tree with an impaled display of songbirds or field mice dangling in the wind — like macabre ornaments on some ...

To us “civilized” mammals, some animal behavior can sometimes be construed as downright gruesome. There are behaviors that have been observed by animals in which even the most avid naturalist has been ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) - The Loggerhead Shrike is a songbird with a raptor’s habits. A denizen of grasslands and other open habitats throughout much of North America, this masked black, white, and ...

Each year around Halloween, the northern shrike lands in our region to spend the winter. A songbird slightly smaller than a robin and covered in silvery-gray plumage, it sports a black tail and wings ...

Doug Chickering found a northern shrike on Plum Island one afternoon last week. He spotted it along the refuge road just north of Lot 6 near Cross Farm Hill. Unfortunately, no one else could relocate ...

All of a sudden on the day after Christmas – Tuesday, Dec. 26 – I suddenly thought of a northern shrike. (That’s the Feast of St. Stephen, for those of us interested in such matters.) My hand was on ...

The weather this month so far has not always been winter-like. Temperatures have shown a huge variation, from 15- to 20 below as we began the month, to near 50 above just ten days later. Again, the ...