Shrikes make regular use of exposed perch sites, where they adopt a conspicuous upright stance.

Shrikes are territorial, and these territories are defended from other pairs.

Nesting Fieldfare s ( Turdus pilaris ) and Great Grey Shrikes apparently cooperate to protect their offspring from predator s

Young birds can be distinguished from young Red-backed Shrikes by the much sparser vermiculations on the underparts.

Among passerine birds, there are fewer known examples of kleptoparasitism, though Masked Shrikes have been recorded stealing food from wheatears, and Eurasian Blackbirds have been seen stealing smashed snails from other thrushes.

The resulting XFC-130H aircraft were modified by the installation of 30 rockets in multiple sets: eight forward-pointed ASROC rocket motors mounted around the forward fuselage to stop the aircraft, eight downward-pointed Shrike rockets fuselage-mounted above the wheel wells to brake its descent, eight rearward-pointed MK-56 rockets ( from the RIM-66 Standard Missile ) mounted on the lower rear fuselage for takeoff assist, two Shrikes mounted in pairs on wing pylons to correct yaw during takeoff transition, and two ASROCs mounted at the rear of the tail to prevent it from striking the ground from over-rotation.

Shrikes are passerine birds of the family Laniidae.

Shrikes are medium-sized birds, up to in length, with grey, brown, or black and white plumage.

Shrikes are known for their habit of catching insects and small vertebrates and impaling their bodies on thorns.

If no prey ventures out in the open, Great Grey Shrikes will rummage through the undergrowth or sit near to hiding places and flash their white wing and tail markings to scare small animals into coming out.

Great Grey Shrikes have also been observed to impale Common Toads ( Bufo bufo ) and skin them – by ripping open the back skin and pulling it over the head – to avoid contamination of the meat by the toxic skin secretions.

Great Grey Shrikes breed during the summer, typically once per year.

Fieldfares ( Turdus pilaris ) nesting in the vicinity will also increase the desirability of nest sites to Great Grey Shrikes, which moreover often refuse to prey upon these thrushes ' nestlings though the opportunity is there.

On average, Great Grey Shrikes get a chance at four breeding attempts during their life, with most birds in the wild getting eaten by a bird of prey or carnivorous mammal or dying of other causes before the end of their fifth winter.

By contrast, in Luxembourg plentiful high-quality habitat is found ; though the number of Great Grey Shrikes in this tiny country is necessarily limited, the average population density there is 25 times as high as in Lithuania.

" Bombycilla Cedrorum: Cedar Waxwing " in Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos and Their Allies.

" Bombycilla Garrulus: Bohemian Waxwing " in Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos and Their Allies.

In North America, alvars provide habitat for birds such as Bobolinks, Eastern Meadowlarks, Upland Sandpipers, Eastern Towhees, Brown Thrashers and Loggerhead Shrikes whose habitat is declining elsewhere.

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More recent production Shrikes have a Picatinny rail handguard.

Shrikes mounted on this receiver can only use M249 box magazines with linked ammo, but they have a smaller vertical profile.

Bird lovers gather with their songbirds every morning to catch up with fellow bird lovers over coffee and tea amid the crisp, melodious chirps of Prinias, Robins, and Shrikes.

A somewhat standard load for the F-105G was a 650 US gal ( 2, 500 L ) centerline fuel tank, two AGM-78s on inboard pylons and two Shrikes on the outboards.

RAF Shrikes were fitted to modified Vulcan bombers in order to attack Argentinian radar installations during Operation Black Buck.

However, air defences remain operational during the attacks and the Shrikes hit two of the less valuable and rapidly replaced secondary fire control radars.

* Clan Jade Falcon ( January 2006 )-Contains 2 Shrikes, 2 Eyries, and 2 Gyrfalcons, plus pilots.

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