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Bird also called a butcherbird

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RankAnswerCluePublisher
99%SHRIKEBird also called a butcherbirdWall Street Journal

Definition

Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.

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