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A new bird painting - a shrike with its impaled prey. [View all]
Shrikes are smallish, robin-sized birds that are carnivorous like raptors, but they are passerine birds that lack talons. So they kill their prey like a cat does - with a neck bite - then impale it on a thorn so they can eat it without having to hold onto it with their little feet. Behold, Vlad the Shrike:
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