Hunger Shrike
by John Muir Laws on January 01, 2010 in Wildlife: Birds, Mammals, Fish
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Turns out this little songbird is a little meaner than most–loggerhead shrikes eat mostly grasshoppers and other insects in summer, but in winter they go after larger prey, including other birds. But they lack the sharp talons of raptors, so they use thorns or the barbs on barbed wire to finish the job. Click the image for a larger version.
