Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike
Lanius ludovicianus
Aves
NEAR THREATENED

Stats

Lifespan
7-12 yrs
Size
Small
Diet
Carnivore
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Solitary
Biome
Temperate grassland
Range
North America
Movement
Flight
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Camouflage
Status
Near Threatened

About

This predatory songbird lives in open fields across North America. It impales its prey on thorns or barbed wire to store food for later consumption.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    egg
    A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
  2. 2.
    hatchling
    A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
  3. 3.
    juvenile
    A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
  4. 4.
    adult
    Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Laniidae
Genus
Lanius
Species
Lanius ludovicianus