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What (who) is SHRIKE - definition
FAMILY OF BIRDS
Laniidae; Shrikes; Butcher Bird
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shrike
n.
Butcher-bird (Lanius excubitor).
shrike
¦ noun a predatory songbird with a hooked bill, often impaling its prey on thorns. [Family Laniidae: many species.]
Origin
C16: perh. related to OE scric 'thrush' and Mid. Low Ger. schrik 'corncrake', of imitative origin.
Shrike
·vi Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, ·etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. ·see under Butcher.
Wikipedia
Shrike
Shrikes () are passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of 34 species in four genera.
The family name, and that of the largest genus, Lanius, is derived from the Latin word for "butcher", and some shrikes are also known as butcherbirds because of their feeding habits. The common English name shrike is from Old English scrīc, alluding to the shrike's shriek-like call.
Examples of use of SHRIKE
1. The red–backed shrike has not declined in Vuosaari.
2. What have the short–haired bumblebee and the red–backed shrike got in common?
3. Red–backed shrike During the mid–1''0s, following a rapid decline, this diminutive predator became the latest species to go extinct as a British breeding bird.
4. In the past 100 years, three breeding bird species have disappeared from Britain, the Kentish plover, wryneck, and red–backed shrike.
5. There were worries that populations of the endangered barred warbler, the red–backed shrike, the corncrake, and the spotted crake would suffer from the construction work.