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Wildlife
This little songbird is meaner than most. Loggerhead shrikes eat mostly grasshoppers and other insects in summer, but in winter they go after larger prey, including other birds. They lack the sharp talons of raptors, so they use thorns or the barbs on barbed wire to finish the job.
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