article thumbnail

Butcher Birds, The Loggerhead Shrike

10,000 Birds

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. Here is a pair birds that I visit quite often, in an arroyo near La Ventana, Mexico. Sometimes reality is so unfair!

Butcher 114
article thumbnail

Horse Slaughter Could Start Up Again in One Month

Critter News

Of course, right now, they're just being shipped to Canada and Mexico anyway, where health and welfare standards are much, much lower. Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. that butcher horses for human consumption now, but if one were to open, it would conduct inspections to make sure federal laws were being followed.