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Word | Shrike |
Urdu Meaning | ايک خون خوار پرنده جو چڑيوں کو کھاتا هے |
any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals / Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher. / a songbird with a strong sharply hooked bill, often impaling its prey of small birds, lizards, and insects on thorns., | |
Usage | ⇒ Because their feet are not large or strong enough to hold prey, shrikes find a crotch in a tree, a thorn, or barbed wire to hang their prey on while they eat. |
Synonyms | butcherbird, bird, magpie, bush shrike, butcher bird, loggerhead shrike, migrant shrike, oscine bird, |
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