Butcher Birds, The Loggerhead Shrike
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2016
In 2011, my wife and I sailed into a beautiful little anchorage here in the Sea of Cortez, on Isla Espritu Santos. Childhood memories flooded back in, and I began my search for the poor victims of this bird, so lovingly nicknamed “The Butcher Bird” Nothing was found, not a grasshopper, lizard, nothing. As a boy growing up, I scoured every bird book I could get my hands on. In each of them, I was always fascinated with the shrikes.
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