shrikes

I've witnessed lots of bird predation, from loggerhead shrikes impaling lizards on a barbed-wire fence to bald eagles pinning and eating Canada geese on lake ice, but I've never seen anything quite as dramatic as this.

Eagle Predation 2009

They were formerly included with the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, but Lanarius and related genera were separated into the bush-shrike family.

Mystery bird: Ethiopian boubou, Laniarius aethiopicus 2011

Black mynahs, egrets, long-tailed shrikes, reed warblers, and Indian pond herons flitted through the dense foliage, and Himalayan kingfishers dropped like turquoise missiles into the water.

Paradise Regained? 2008

Black mynahs, egrets, long-tailed shrikes, reed warblers, and Indian pond herons flitted through the dense foliage, and Himalayan kingfishers dropped like turquoise missiles into the water.

Paradise Regained? 2008

Black mynahs, egrets, long-tailed shrikes, reed warblers, and Indian pond herons flitted through the dense foliage, and Himalayan kingfishers dropped like turquoise missiles into the water.

Paradise Regained? 2008

Yet still these shrikes are shrieking for more victims, their shrillness piercing the air with a call to purge the universities of 'treason.'

John Fund vs. Juan Cole: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

Apart from those species particularly associated with the sea and wetlands, there is also a considerable variety of forest birds such as woodpeckers, barbets, shrikes, drongos, mynahs, minivets, babblers and many others.

Sundarbans, Bangladesh 2009

I remembered, years before, watching red-backed shrikes a mile or so away, perhaps the last pair to breed in England.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

He also has material on longdogs, cormorants, and shrikes.

Linkfest 2006

He also has material on longdogs, cormorants, and shrikes.

Archive 2006-07-01 2006