"wild when they'd naturally disperse from their parents. Since 2004, over 90 young have been released annually and between 2% and 6.5% of young released have successfully migrated and returned to breed in the subsequent year. Loggerhead shrike The loggerhead shrike (""Lanius ludovicianus"") is a passerine bird in the family Laniidae. It is the only member of the shrike family endemic to North America; the related northern shrike (""L. borealis"") occurs north of its range but also in the eastern Palearctic. It is nicknamed the butcherbird after its carnivorous tendencies, as it consumes prey such as amphibians, insects, lizards, small"
"is not universally accepted due to its great age. The genus ""Lanius"" contains the following species: Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus ""Lanius"": Lanius Lanius, the typical shrikes, are a genus of passerine birds in the shrike family. The majority of the family's species are placed in this genus. The genus name, ""Lanius"", is derived from the Latin word for ""butcher"", and some shrikes are also known as ""butcher birds"" because of their feeding habits. The common English name ""shrike"" is from Old English ""scríc"", ""shriek"", referring to the shrill call."
"Lanius Lanius, the typical shrikes, are a genus of passerine birds in the shrike family. The majority of the family's species are placed in this genus. The genus name, ""Lanius"", is derived from the Latin word for ""butcher"", and some shrikes are also known as ""butcher birds"" because of their feeding habits. The common English name ""shrike"" is from Old English ""scríc"", ""shriek"", referring to the shrill call. African species are known as fiscals. That name comes from the Afrikaans word ""fiskaal"" (""public official"", especially a hangman), because they hang their prey on thorns for storage. Most ""Lanius"" species occur"
"""butcher birds"" because of their feeding habits. The specific ""minor"" is Latin for ""smaller"". The common English name ""shrike"" is from Old English ""scríc"", ""shriek"", referring to the shrill call. The adult male lesser grey shrike has its nape, cheeks, ear and eye coverts and front part of the crown black. The hind part of the crown and the back is a pale bluish-grey and the rump is a similar but rather paler colour. The underparts are white with the lower breast and belly suffused with pink. The axillaries are greyish-white and the underwing coverts are brownish-black. The two central"
"Tiger shrike The tiger shrike or thick-billed shrike (""Lanius tigrinus"") is a small passerine bird which belongs to the genus ""Lanius"" in the shrike family, Laniidae. It is found in wooded habitats across eastern Asia. It is a shy, often solitary bird which is less conspicuous than most other shrikes. Like other shrikes it is predatory, feeding on small animals. Its nest is built in a tree and three to six eggs are laid. It derives its name from the tiger-like pattern of its upperparts which are reddish-brown with dark bars. Adult males have white underparts and a grey head"
"another two weeks. Usually one clutch of eggs is laid in a year but a second clutch is laid if the first one is destroyed. Strong winds and predation by common magpies result in the loss of many eggs. Tiger shrike The tiger shrike or thick-billed shrike (""Lanius tigrinus"") is a small passerine bird which belongs to the genus ""Lanius"" in the shrike family, Laniidae. It is found in wooded habitats across eastern Asia. It is a shy, often solitary bird which is less conspicuous than most other shrikes. Like other shrikes it is predatory, feeding on small animals. Its"
"""caniceps"" has pure grey. A small amount of white is present at the base of the primaries. The bay-backed shrike is smaller and more contrastingly patterned and has a more prominent white patch on the wing. The sexes are alike in plumage. The genus name, ""Lanius"", is derived from the Latin word for ""butcher"", and some shrikes are also known as ""butcher birds"" because of their feeding habits. The specific ""schach"" is an onomatopoeic name based on the call. The common English name ""shrike"" is from Old English ""scríc"", ""shriek"", referring to the shrill call. A number of subspecies are"
"is from Old English ""scríc"", ""shriek"", referring to the shrill call. It is resident in southern Europe. It is slightly smaller and darker than the great grey shrike, and prefers dry open country. This medium-sized passerine bird eats large insects, small birds and rodents. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a ""larder"". Iberian grey shrike The Iberian grey shrike (""Lanius meridionalis"") is a member of the shrike family. The plumage is generally similar to great grey shrike apart from the differences noted below. It is closely related to the"
"rearing the young. The two shrike-flycatcher species of Africa are also occasionally known as flycatcher-shrikes: Flycatcher-shrike The flycatcher-shrikes are two species of small Asian passerine bird belonging to the genus Hemipus. They are now usually placed in the Vangidae. They are in length. They are slender birds with fairly long wings and tails. The bill and feet are black. The plumage is dark above and pale below with white on the rump. The bar-winged flycatcher-shrike has a large white patch on the wing which the black-winged flycatcher-shrike lacks. They are found in broad-leaved forest, forest edge and secondary forest in"
"enough to raise serious conservation concerns, and the species is therefore classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being of least concern. The shrikes are a family of slender, long-tailed passerines, most of its members being in the genus ""Lanius"", the typical shrikes. They are short-necked birds with rounded wings and a hooked tip to the bill. Most occur in open habitats. The affiliations of the masked shrike with other members of the genus are uncertain; the ""brown"" shrikes (brown, red-backed and isabelline shrikes) and tropical species like the Somali fiscal have both been suggested as possible"
"Magpie shrike The magpie shrike (""Urolestes melanoleucus""), also known as the African long-tailed shrike, is a species of bird in the Laniidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Urolestes. It is native to the grasslands of eastern and southeastern Africa, where its natural habitats are dry savannah, moist savannah, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It has a very wide range and is common in places, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of ""least concern"". The magpie shrike is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania,"
"Magpie shrike The magpie shrike (""Urolestes melanoleucus""), also known as the African long-tailed shrike, is a species of bird in the Laniidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Urolestes. It is native to the grasslands of eastern and southeastern Africa, where its natural habitats are dry savannah, moist savannah, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It has a very wide range and is common in places, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of ""least concern"". The magpie shrike is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania,"
"with a black mask. Females and young birds are duller and browner and young birds lack the grey and black on the head. The tiger shrike was first described in 1822 by the Belgian naturalist Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez in the ""Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle"". He placed it in the genus ""Lanius"", a group of about 26 species living in open areas across Eurasia, Africa and North America. The name of the genus means ""butcher"" in Latin, referring to the birds' habit of impaling and storing prey. Within the genus, analysis of calls suggests that the tiger shrike is most"
"White-tailed shrike The white-tailed shrike (""Lanioturdus torquatus"") is a small passerine bird from the family Platysteiridae. It is also commonly known as the chatshrike. It occurs only in western Angola and Namibia in thorn scrub. It forages from ground level, where it hops about in large bounds and upright posture, to 25m above ground, scanning for insects. The very short tail, with a small black mark at the tip of the central two feathers, is always carried down, never sticking up. Its range of calls includes loud ringing territorial whistles. This curious bird, which some consider to have close affinities"
"the species ""observes approaching hawks and announces [the presence] of songbirds"" as he put it. This habit was also put to use in falconry, as fancifully recorded by William Yarrell later. The common English name ""shrike"" is from Old English ""scríc"", ""shriek"", referring to the shrill call. Ulisse Aldrovandi, Conrad Gessner, John Ray and Francis Willughby also reported old folk names, mainly from Germanic languages: ""Wereangel"" or ""Wierangel"" from the Pennines of England (where the bird was noted as a vagrant) as well as ""Warkangel, Werkengel"" or ""Wurchangel"" in various German dialects (e.g. around Frankfurt/Main and Strasbourg) probably mean ""choking"
"""scríc"", ""shriek"", referring to the shrill call. This migratory medium-sized passerine eats large insects, small birds, rodents and lizards. Like other shrikes it hunts from prominent perches, and impales corpses on thorns or barbed wire as a larder. It breeds in open cultivated country, preferably with thorn bushes. The plumage is isabelline, the sandy colour which gives rise to its name. It has a red tail. Young birds can be distinguished from young red-backed shrikes by the much sparser vermiculations on the underparts. Isabelline shrike The isabelline shrike or Daurian shrike (""Lanius isabellinus"") is a member of the shrike family"
"in Greece and Turkey because of habitat loss, and a large decrease in Israel is thought to be due to pesticides. In Somalia this bird is now rare. Migrating birds are shot in the countries around the eastern Mediterranean, despite legal protection in most countries, and there is some persecution of breeding birds in Greece and Syria, where this species is considered to be unlucky. There are indications that this shrike is adapting to plantations instead of natural woodlands, which could help populations in the longer term. Masked shrike The masked shrike (""Lanius nubicus"") is a bird in the shrike"
"Southern fiscal The southern fiscal, common fiscal or fiscal shrike (""Lanius collaris"") is a member of the shrike family found through most of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is also sometimes named jackie hangman or butcher bird due to its habit of impaling its prey on acacia thorns to store the food for later consumption. It was previously lumped together with the northern fiscal (""Lanius humeralis""). Together they were known as the common fiscal. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the southern fiscal in his ""Ornithologie"" based on a specimen collected from the Cape of Good"
"Yellow-billed shrike The yellow-billed shrike (""Corvinella corvina"") is a large passerine bird in the shrike family. It is sometimes known as the long-tailed shrike, but this is to be discouraged, since it invites confusion with the long-tailed shrike, ""Lanius schach"", of tropical southern Asia. The yellow-billed shrike is a common resident breeding bird in tropical Africa from Senegal eastwards to Uganda and locally in westernmost Kenya. It frequents forest and other habitats with trees. The yellow-billed shrike is with a long, graduating tail and short wings. The adult has mottled brown upperparts and streaked buff underparts. It has a brown"
"Masked shrike The masked shrike (""Lanius nubicus"") is a bird in the shrike family, Laniidae. It breeds in southeastern Europe and at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, with a separate population in eastern Iraq and western Iran. It is migratory, wintering mainly in northeast Africa. Although it is a short-range migrant, vagrants have occurred widely elsewhere, including northern and western Europe. It is the smallest member of its genus, long-tailed and with a hooked bill. The male has mainly black upperparts, with white on its crown, forehead and supercilium and large white patches on the shoulders and wings. The"
"Long-tailed shrike The long-tailed shrike or rufous-backed shrike (""Lanius schach"") is a member of the bird family Laniidae, the shrikes. They are found widely distributed across Asia and there are variations in plumage across the range. The species ranges across much of Asia, both on the mainland and the eastern archipelagos. The eastern or Himalayan subspecies, ""L. s. tricolor"", is sometimes called the black-headed shrike. Although there are considerable differences in plumage among the subspecies, they all have a long and narrow black tail, have a black mask and forehead, rufous rump and flanks and a small white patch on"
"an alternative common name, as are Break o'day boy and organbird. Leach also called it the black-throated crow shrike, a name used by Gould for subspecies ""nigrogularis"" while calling subspecies ""picatus"" the pied crow-shrike. ‘Jackeroo’ is a colloquial name from the Musgrave Ranges in Central Australia. Gould recorded ""Ka-ra-a-ra"" as a name used by indigenous people of Darwin. The Ngarluma people of the western Pilbara knew it as ""gurrbaru"". In the Yuwaaliyaay dialect of the Gamilaraay language of southeastern Australia, it is ""buubuurrbu"". Names recorded from central Australia include ""alpirtaka"" and ""urbura"" in the Upper Arrernte language. Like other butcherbirds,"
"Crimson-breasted shrike The crimson-breasted shrike (""Laniarius atrococcineus"") or the crimson-breasted gonolek, ('gonolek' - supposedly imitative of its call), is a southern African bird. It has black upper parts with a white flash on the wing, and bright scarlet underparts. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as a ""least-concern species"". The species was first collected by William John Burchell in 1811 near the confluence of the Vaal and Orange Rivers. He named it ""atrococcineus"" meaning 'black/red', finding the striking colour combination quite remarkable. The generic name ""Laniarius"" was coined by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot"
"Bushshrike The bushshrikes are smallish passerine birds. They were formerly classed with the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, but are now considered sufficiently distinctive to be separated from that group as the family Malaconotidae. This is an African group of species which are found in scrub or open woodland. They are similar in habits to shrikes, hunting insects and other small prey from a perch on a bush. Although similar in build to the shrikes, these tend to be either colourful species or largely black; some species are quite secretive. Some bushshrikes have flamboyant displays. The male puffbacks puff"
"Bay-backed shrike The bay-backed shrike (""Lanius vittatus"") is a member of the bird family Laniidae, the shrikes, resident in South Asia. It is smallish shrike at 17 cm, maroon-brown above with a pale rump and long black tail with white edges. The underparts are white, but with buff flanks. The crown and nape are grey, with a typical shrike black bandit mask through the eye. There is a small white wing patch, and the bill and legs are dark grey. Sexes are similar, but young birds are washed-out versions of the adults. The bay-backed shrike has a characteristic upright ""shrike"""
"of the common name ""great grey shrike"". The type locality of Linnaeus is simply given as ""Europa"" (""Europe""). The scientific name of the great grey shrike literally means ""sentinel butcher"": ""Lanius"" is the Latin term for a butcher, while ""excubitor"" is Latin for a watchman or sentinel. This refers to the birds' two most conspicuous behaviours – storing food animals by impaling them on thorns, and using exposed tree-tops or poles to watch the surrounding area for possible prey. Use of the former by Conrad Gessner established the quasi-scientific term ""lanius"" for the shrikes. Linnaeus chose his specific name because"
"Grey shrikethrush The grey shrikethrush or grey shrike-thrush (""Colluricincla harmonica""), formerly commonly known as grey thrush, is one of the best-loved and most distinctive songbirds of Australasia. It is moderately common to common in most parts of Australia, but absent from the driest of the inland deserts. It is also found in New Guinea. The grey shrikethrush was originally described in the genus ""Turdus"". Alternate names include the brown shrike-thrush, buff-bellied shrike-thrush, grey shrike-flycatcher, northern shrike-thrush and south-western shrike-thrush. Five subspecies are recognized: Of medium size (about long) and lacking bright colours, the grey shrikethrush—usually just ""thrush"" in casual conversation—has"
"Red-backed shrike The red-backed shrike (""Lanius collurio"") is a carnivorous passerine bird and member of the shrike family Laniidae. The breeding range stretches from Western Europe east to central Russia but it only rarely occurs in the British Isles. It is migratory and winters in the western areas of tropical Africa. The red-backed shrike was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his ""Systema Naturae"" under its current binomial name ""Lanius collurio"". The genus name, ""Lanius"", is derived from the Latin word for ""butcher"", and some shrikes are also known as ""butcher"
"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. In the female and young birds the upperparts are brown and vermiculated. Underparts are buff and also vermiculated. This bird breeds in most of Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa. The bird is listed as a ""least concern"" (LC) species on a global scale, but some parts of its range have seen a steep decline in numbers, so locally its status can be less secure. Once a common migratory visitor to Great"
"Mackinnon's shrike The Mackinnon's shrike (""Lanius mackinnoni""), also called the Mackinnon's fiscal, is a songbird species of the family Laniidae. It is found in Central Africa and the Lake Victoria region, where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and moist savanna. It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.The population of this species is increasing, which is thought to be due to the degradation of nearby habitat. Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate Archibald Donald MacKinnon. The Mackinnon's shrike grows to a length of about . The adult male has a greyish-black head"
"Piping shrike The piping shrike is the emblematic bird that appears on South Australia's flag, State Badge and Coat of Arms. The bird appears ""displayed proper"" with its wings outstretched and curved upwards. Although the image of the piping shrike is readily identified with South Australia, the bird in its own right has never been ""formally"" adopted as a faunal or bird emblem of the state. The term piping shrike for this species of Australian magpie is correct, yet uncommon. The term piping shrike is commonly mistaken to refer to the magpie-lark, which is incorrect. The piping shrike first appeared"
"Bull-headed shrike The bull-headed shrike (""Lanius bucephalus"") is a passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the shrike family Laniidae. It is 19–20 cm (approx. 7.48-7.9 inches) long. The male has a brown crown, white eyebrow and black mask. The back is grey-brown while the wings are dark with a white patch. The flanks are rufous and the rest of the underparts are whitish with fine barring. Females are similar but duller and browner with a brown mask and no white wing-patch. The species has harsh grating and chattering calls and will also mimic other birds. It breeds in north-east"
"related to the density of hunting perches. Installing more artificial perches causes the fiscal to reduce its territory size and allow more birds in the affected range. In eastern Africa, the southern fiscal is a major predator of the plain tiger butterfly. Southern fiscal The southern fiscal, common fiscal or fiscal shrike (""Lanius collaris"") is a member of the shrike family found through most of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is also sometimes named jackie hangman or butcher bird due to its habit of impaling its prey on acacia thorns to store the food for later consumption. It was previously lumped together"