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Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) (by m. geven)
“The family name, and that of the largest genus, Lanius, is derived from the Latin word for ‘butcher’, and some shrikes were also known as ‘butcher birds’ because of their feeding habits… Shrikes are known for their habit of catching insects and small vertebrates and impaling their bodies on thorns.”
I WANT ONE AND I SHALL NAME HIM VLAD
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Then they leave them there to cook in the sun. Chefs of the bird world~
I WANT ONE AND I SHALL NAME HIM VLAD
it skewered the mouse on a twig, what a little goddamn smarty
“The family name, and that of the largest genus, Lanius, is derived from the Latin word for ‘butcher’, and some shrikes...
Take that, mouse.
… Is that mouse-shrew-thing impaled on the branch…