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impaled its victims in order to secure them while edible bites were tom away. The shrike has a tearing, hooked bill like a true hawk, but lacks a hawk’s talons with long claws for holding its kill.
The book on the Osage Orange mentioned that this tree with sharp thorns was favored by the shrike for impaling kills and storing them for the future.
I haven’t seen a shrike — a bird of fearsome beauty — in Virginia for many years. This bird has disappeared from the southeast, along with the Whip-poor-will and the Bobwhite Quail. Feral cats have been partially blamed for the loss of the ground-nesting Whip-poor-will and Bobwhite.
Reasons for the diminution of shrikes is unknown; likely it
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