Each year around Halloween, the northern shrike lands in our region to spend the winter. A songbird slightly smaller than a robin and covered in silvery-gray plumage, it sports a black tail and wings ...

Like eagles and falcons, shrikes are birds of prey. However, they aren’t raptors, but are songbirds. Though shrikes have a sharp, hooked beak, they are small and have weak legs. The little shrike ...

Doug Chickering found a northern shrike on Plum Island one afternoon last week. He spotted it along the refuge road just north of Lot 6 near Cross Farm Hill. Unfortunately, no one else could relocate ...

The northern shrike migrates south in fall to Canada and the northern United States from the boreal forest and northern tundra in search of food. This particular songbird is not going to be eating ...

Kelly Krabbenhoft, a freelance photographer from Fargo, snapped these shots last month of recent bird migrations. Here's what Krabbenhoft wrote: "The northern shrike and pine grosbeak were the ...

Brainerd, Minn. – Don't be fooled by its robin-like size — the northern shrike is a songbird that kills for a living. If that's not odd enough, instead of using powerful feet and needle-sharp talons ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The northern shrike is one tough predator, even though it’s a songbird only the size of a robin. Note the hooked beak, a formidable tool that helps this bird capture and kill its prey ...

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I love rule breakers. You know, the critters in nature that don’t follow the rules we people lay out for them. A good example of this is the opossum. How crazy is it for a mammal to have their babies ...

Years ago, on one particular winter walk here at the nature center, we were concentrating on birds. We saw many of the "usual suspects" - chickadees, mourning doves, crows, plus a great horned owl and ...