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loggerhead shrike

noun

  1. a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.


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Origin of loggerhead shrike1

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
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An estimated 25 bird species, including ladder-backed woodpeckers, loggerhead shrikes and western screech owls, nest in their trunks and branches.

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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.

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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.

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In the sagebrush, he found a loggerhead shrike, green-tailed towhee and prairie falcon.

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On a less positive note, northern bobwhite, American kestrels and loggerhead shrikes continued to decline in most regions.

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