- Wall Street Journal Crossword
- February 11 2023
- Bird also called a butcherbird
Bird also called a butcherbird
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Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | 99% | SHRIKE | Bird also called a butcherbird | Wall 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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