I've typed plenty of words over my plenty of blogs about the extant dinosauria--birds. I, like so many others, am intrigued by birds. On Netflix we found a BBC documentary series on birds, eight or nine episodes, and having watched them, another crazy piece of bird knowledge was bestowed upon my humble head.
Shrikes. I had never heard of the shrike, a series of passerine birds. Passerines are the perching-birds, but you would easily recognize other members as crows and ravens and jays and cardinals.
One of the crazy things about shrikes, though, is that they have a special way of storing food:
They leave their dead and/or dying prey impaled on thorn bushes or barbed-wire fencing or other sharp objects. They do it to bugs and lizards and small mammals, like the above I nabbed from a Google search.
How had I never come across shrikes before?
