shrike
shrike / shrīk/ • n. a songbird (family Laniidae) with a strong sharply hooked bill, often impaling its prey of small birds, lizards, and insects on thorns. Also called butcherbird.
shrike
shrike (butcherbird) Small, perching bird found worldwide, except in South America and Australia. It dives at its prey – insects, small birds, mice – hitting them with its strong, hooked bill and then impaling them on a sharp fence post, twig or thorn. Family Laniidae.
shrike
shrike XVI. of obscure orig.; corr. formations are OE. sċrīċ thrush, MLG. schrīk corncrake, rel. to vbs. cited under SHRIEK.
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