shrike

IPA: ʃrˈaɪk

Any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae which are known for their habit of catching other birds and small animals and impaling the uneaten portions of their bodies on thorns.

Examples of "shrike" in Sentences

That's possible, but I've never heard anyone in the South call a shrike a catbird.
The shrike is his worst enemy, the swift swoop of his cruel beak being always fatal in a flock of chickadees.
Still more melodious is the call of the wood-shrike, which is frequently heard at this season, and indeed during the greater part of the year.
Probably it is because the shrike is a rare visitant, and is not found in this part of the country during the nesting season of our songsters.
Sometimes we would carry 500 lb bombs, sometimes 750 lb bombs, sometimes 1000 lb bombs, and other times 3000 lb bombs as well as CBU and what they call a shrike missile.
She looked around: the kanji composition that he had received from Philip Yano hung on one wall and on the other was a brush painting of a bird called a shrike sitting on a twisted piece of limb.
All these creatures, he informed them, were placed there by the bird which François had shot, and which was no other than the "shrike" or "butcher-bird" -- a name by which it is more familiarly known, and which it receives from the very habit they had just observed.
All these creatures, he informed them, were placed there by the bird which Francois had shot, and which was no other than the "shrike" (_Lanius_) or "butcher-bird" -- a name by which it is more familiarly known, and which it receives from the very habit they had just observed.