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Loggerhead Shrike

- a songbird that lives the lifestyle of a hawk, catching small prey from insects to lizards and snakes to ssmall birds

- uses notched bill to kill prey; takes it to thorny bush or barbed wire and impales it for dismemberment

- "song" consists of a series of harsh notes and is likely the origin of the name

- regurgitates undigestable parts of meal as a pellet (shown in LOSH 068)

- usually seen as solitary bird at top of small tree in open country

- range declining in U.S. as habitat disappears

- close relative the Northern Shrike slightly larger and has heavier bill; seen in upper tier states in winter primarily

- resembles Northern Mockingbird in size and colors, but large headed and behaves differently

- all images made in AZ and NM