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Shrike

noun
1.
Any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals.



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European shrike
ant shrike
black-fronted bush shrike
bush shrike
loggerhead shrike
migrant shrike
northern shrike
piping crow-shrike
swallow shrike
white-rumped shrike


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"Shrike" Quotes from Famous Books



... kinde of acte was, we found many thus punished, and demaunding the cause thereof, they saide it was for that they knew not how to answere vnto certaine things asked them. It is a world to see how these Louteas are serued and feared, in such wise, that in publike assemblies at one shrike they giue, all the seruitors belonging vnto iustice tremble thereat. At their being in these places, when they list to mooue, be it but euen to the gate, these seruitors doe take them vp, and carry them in seates of beaten ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of - The English Nation, Vol. 11 • Richard Hakluyt


Words linked to "Shrike" :   family Laniidae, Laniidae, oscine bird, migrant shrike, butcherbird, oscine, Lanius lucovicianus, Lanius ludovicianus migrans


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