Tanzanian Starlings, Shrikes, and Weavers (Part 2)
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2012
They are quick and intense, with the requisite taste for lizards, snakes, and fledglings, but they’ve been evolutionarily deprived of the proper tools… so they improvise. No wonder they’ve earned the moniker “butcher bird.” STELLAR SHRIKES Shrikes (like this Grey-backed Fiscal ) are little wannabe raptors.
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