This bird eats large insects, small birds, rodents and lizards. tt hunts from prominent perches hunts, and impales corpses on thorns as a "larder"
This 16–18 cm-long (– inch) bird eats large insects, small birds, frogs, rodents and lizards. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a "larder." This practice has earned it the nickname of "butcher bird.” The general colour of the male's upper parts is reddish. It has a grey head and a typical shrike black stripe through the eye. Underparts are tinged pink, and the tail has a black and white pattern similar to that of a wheatear.
Size: 4923px × 3328px
Location: Rioseta, Huesca, Spain
Photo credit: © Gabriel Chalmeta / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: animal, background, beak, beautiful, bird, bird., birds, birdwatching, black, blue-grey, bushes, butcher, carnivorous, close-, collurio, colourful, environment, green, handsome, heathland, horizontal, huesca, hunter, ist, lanius, male, mask, migrating, moss, nature, ornithology, perched, pink, predator, pyrenees, red, red-backed, reddish, rioseta, risk, rock, rusty-brown, scattered, shrike, side, spain, stripe, summer, view, wild, wildlife
