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Northern Shrike - (Lanius excubitor) 

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Identification

  • Medium-sized, stocky, grey songbird
  • Black on wings and tail
  • Thick black eye stripe
  • White patch on wings and white on
         sides of tail
  • Lightly barred below
  • Juvenile brownish with darker barring
  • 10" (25 cm.)

Habitat

  • Open or brushy areas

Additional Information

  • Uncommon migrant and winter resident
  • Predatory songbird
  • Eats small birds and mammals
  • Sometimes caches food by impaling it on
         thorns or barbed wire

Northern Shrike sitting on a wire

Northern Shrike as seen from below 

 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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