Loggerhead Shrike

Description:

A small gray, black, and white bird of open areas, the Loggerhead Shrike hardly appears to be a predator. But it uses its hooked beak to kill insects, lizards, mice, and birds, and then impales them on thorns to hold them while it rips them apart.

Habitat:

open grasslands with perches to hunt from

Notes:

This shrike has impaled a green grasshopper on the barbed wire.