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Description: | The Great Grey Shrike is a predatory bird that feeds on large insects, small birds and rodents. They don't have sharp talons, but instead carry their unfortunate prey to a nearby bush and impale it on a sharp thorn or twig to kill it. This rather gruesome habit has given the Great Grey Shrike the colloquial name 'Butcher Bird'. It's an uncommon visitor to Britain. A few of these birds spend the winter in parts of the south. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | animals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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