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Hunger Shrike
by Jack Laws — published January 01, 2010
Turns out this little songbird is a little meaner than most--loggerhead shrikes eat mostly grasshoppers and other insects in summer, but in winter they go after larger prey, including other birds. But they lack the sharp talons of raptors, so they use thorns or the barbs on barbed wire to finish the job. Click the image for a larger version.
Naturalist and illustrator Jack Laws is the author of the Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada and Sierra Birds: A Hiker's Guide. See his work and class schedule at johnmuirlaws.com.
The Naturalist Notebook, by Jack Laws, appears in every print issue of Bay Nature magazine.
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