The Eastern Loggerhead Shrike can be found in open pasture land which is its most preferable habitat. The Shrike likes for their habitat to have lots of trees for them to perch on because this is how they stalk their prey. It also likes to have many bushes with thorns so when they do catch their prey they can spear it right on the thorns because these birds do not have talons to hold their prey. Because the bird prefers the pasture lands, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the bird to survive, for more of those lands are shrinking every year due to humans building on those lands. Just recently the Shrike can be in Outaouais, Quebec region where they are labeled as threaten birds. I really like these birds because I think they are so unique and interesting from all other birds found in North America. I think it is important to help save these birds from extinction and even educate the public about these modern day dinosaur-like birds, but without the teeth birds. : )
Thursday, October 27, 2011
The World of Eastern Loggerhead Shrikes !!!
The Eastern Loggerhead Shrike is a very interesting bird that I have come to care about in the recent months. At first glance, the bird looks like any other bird that someone might come upon if bird watching or if seeing the bird for your first time. The bird is a medium sized grey and white bird with black on its wings and tail and a black mask-like mask across its eyes which closely resembles the black mask of a raccoon. It is slightly smaller than a robin with a slightly larger head. But in contrast the bird is very different compared to all the other birds. When looking at the Eastern Loggerhead Shrike one would not guess that the bird is a predatory songbird. Known as the “butcher bird”, it likes to kill its prey then store its food on barbed wire or any type of thorns that are found close by. The Shrikes diet consists of eating mice, voles (any small mouse-like or rat-like rodent), grasshoppers, beetles, and any other small prey that it might find like other small birds.
The Eastern Loggerhead Shrike can be found in open pasture land which is its most preferable habitat. The Shrike likes for their habitat to have lots of trees for them to perch on because this is how they stalk their prey. It also likes to have many bushes with thorns so when they do catch their prey they can spear it right on the thorns because these birds do not have talons to hold their prey. Because the bird prefers the pasture lands, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the bird to survive, for more of those lands are shrinking every year due to humans building on those lands. Just recently the Shrike can be in Outaouais, Quebec region where they are labeled as threaten birds. I really like these birds because I think they are so unique and interesting from all other birds found in North America. I think it is important to help save these birds from extinction and even educate the public about these modern day dinosaur-like birds, but without the teeth birds. : )
The Eastern Loggerhead Shrike can be found in open pasture land which is its most preferable habitat. The Shrike likes for their habitat to have lots of trees for them to perch on because this is how they stalk their prey. It also likes to have many bushes with thorns so when they do catch their prey they can spear it right on the thorns because these birds do not have talons to hold their prey. Because the bird prefers the pasture lands, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the bird to survive, for more of those lands are shrinking every year due to humans building on those lands. Just recently the Shrike can be in Outaouais, Quebec region where they are labeled as threaten birds. I really like these birds because I think they are so unique and interesting from all other birds found in North America. I think it is important to help save these birds from extinction and even educate the public about these modern day dinosaur-like birds, but without the teeth birds. : )
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