Loggerhead Shrike - Butcher Bird (16539220801)
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Summary[edit] Description: The Loggerhead Shrike is also known as a butcher bird because it impales its prey on spikes in trees or on barbed-wire fences, creating a larder! Here is a shrike impaling a large insect on a spike on a barbed-wire fence. Date: 7 January 2015, 21:43. Source: Loggerhead Shrike - Butcher Bird. Author: Andy Morffew from Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, UK.
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