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COPYRIGHT 2005 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
Take a spring walk in the woods, and you'll see twittering birds, rustling underbrush--and a tree spiked with corpses? The songbird family of shrikes that is responsible for such carnage is well represented by the woodchat shrike (Lanius senator), pictured here grappling with a lizard. Shrikes are keen carnivores,...
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