# Loggerhead Shrike

[![loggerhead-shrike-1.jpeg](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/scaled-1680-/loggerhead-shrike-1.jpeg)](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/loggerhead-shrike-1.jpeg)

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### **Description**

The striking, block *Zorro* mask of the Loggerhead Shrike makes it unmistakable when you spot this bird. It’s robin-sized with a grey upper body and white lower. It has black and grey wings and can often be heard calling or singing from trees.

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### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Personal stats**</span>  


#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**First observation**</span>

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#### **Captured media details**

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</td><td style="height: 29.5px; border-width: 1px;">**Male**  
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### **Experiences &amp; anecdotes**

**10/19/22 -** The cute but vicious Loggerhead Shrike is often found on barbed wire or thorny branches. It grabs a prey and impales it on the thorns. I usually don’t hear the Shrike vocalize but I got lucky and heard it recently and got to take a new recording of it. My husband and I always keep an eye out for this bird when driving around or going on a walk.

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### **Captured media**

#### **Photographs**

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">**[![loggerhead-shrike-2.jpeg](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/scaled-1680-/loggerhead-shrike-2.jpeg)](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/loggerhead-shrike-2.jpeg)**</span>

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<span style="background-color: rgb(236, 240, 241);">[![loggerhead-shrike-3.jpeg](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/scaled-1680-/loggerhead-shrike-3.jpeg)](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/loggerhead-shrike-3.jpeg)</span>

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#### **Audio recordings**

- [**ML492638881**](https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/492638881)
    - This is the song of the Loggerhead Shrike. There is a group of trees at the park that the shrike often likes to hang out in when I visit.

<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="392" src="https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/492638881/embed" width="320"></iframe>

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### **From my blogs**

- [The song of the Loggerhead Shrike](https://becausebirds.com/the-song-of-the-loggerhead-shrike/)
- [Leading a bird walk at Pearsall Park with Bexar Audubon Society](https://becausebirds.com/leading-a-bird-walk-at-pearsall-park-with-bexar-audubon-society/)
- [Painted Buntings and Nesting Scissor-tailed Flycatchers](https://becausebirds.com/painted-buntings-and-nesting-scissor-tailed-flycatchers/)