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loggerhead shrike
noun
- a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.
Word History and Origins
Origin of loggerhead shrike1
Example Sentences
The fire also swept through parts of the island that have rare habitats for sensitive plant and animal species found nowhere else, such as the endangered San Clemente loggerhead shrike, a carnivorous songbird.
You have just imitated a hunting loggerhead shrike, long considered one of North America’s more ghoulish songbirds for the way it impales its prey carcasses on thorns and barbed wire.
In the sagebrush, he found a loggerhead shrike, green-tailed towhee and prairie falcon.
On a less positive note, northern bobwhite, American kestrels and loggerhead shrikes continued to decline in most regions.
Lynch says researchers are monitoring 10 loggerhead shrikes that recently hatched.
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