butcher birds - Brown Shrike - Lanius cristatus

Capturing this butcher bird while it catch a small snake in the grass.

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worm food

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insects food

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brown shrike are known to be a butcher birds. bec, the would use the thorn of the plants and even barb wires to impale their victim here a mice.

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this is an old shot. i was using 18~200 lens then. maybe around 2015~2016.



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Manually curated by EwkaW from the Qurator Team. Keep up the good work!

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Great shots that show this bird's behavior. Great work.

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