Shrikes - English meaning
Shrikes – definitions in English dictionary
nounA songbird with a strong sharply hooked bill, often impaling its prey of small birds, lizards, and insects on thorns.
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Because their feet are not large or strong enough to hold prey, shrikes find a crotch in a tree, a …
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Word origin
mid 16th century: perhaps related to Old English scrīc ‘thrush’ and Middle Low German schrīk ‘corncrake’, of imitative origin.
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