Avid twitchers have travelled overnight from as far away as Dublin and Cork to catch a glimpse of a rare bird that has taken up residence in the Belfast Hills. A rare sighting of a great grey shrike — ...
Like eagles and falcons, shrikes are birds of prey. However, they aren’t raptors, but are songbirds. Though shrikes have a sharp, hooked beak, they are small and have weak legs. The little shrike ...
The brown shrike ( Lanius cristatus cristatus) is ironically the shrike that seems to be most at home in and around Chennai, though it hardly has its hearth in these parts. A winter visitor, the brown ...
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