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Loggerhead Shrike - Lanius ludovicianus

Order: PASSERIFORMES - Perching birds
Family: LANIIDAE -Shrikes

Uses its hooked beak to kill insects, lizards, mice, and birds, and impales them on thorns while it rips them apart.

Some residents now rare. Migrants July to March.

Near Sanata Barbara 1/7/2012
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. E-520, f/8 @ 300 mm, 1/125, ISO 400, No Flash

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Loggerhead Shrike - Lanius ludovicianus