That's possible, but I've never heard anyone in the South call a shrike a catbird. From Wordnik.com. [The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper] Reference
The shrike is his worst enemy, the swift swoop of his cruel beak being always fatal in a flock of chickadees. From Wordnik.com. [Ways of Wood Folk] Reference
We usually English the word by “nightingale;” but it is a kind of shrike or butcher-bird (Lanius Boulboul. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The shrike is a taciturn bird. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
Also spotted a loggerhead shrike in the tall sage. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
As well the swallow the fierce shrike might follow. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference
Long - tailed blue-crested shrike, etc. are found here. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The fog swept in to envelope this shrike on stop 18. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
That shrike with the horned toad is like the COOLEST photo ever. From Wordnik.com. [Matt's Ten Birds Part 3] Reference
Mystery bird: Northern white-crowned shrike, Eurocephalus rueppelli. From Wordnik.com. [Spacewatch: International Space Station timings and positions] Reference
Roxane, bright as a little shrike, leaned out from her chair of honor. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
The shrike leapt to her free wrist and the demon reached to caress it. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
Greasewood may furnish a permanent residence for the loggerhead shrike. From Wordnik.com. [American Semidesert and Desert Province (Bailey)] Reference
The shrike resembled a tiny zeppelin with a knitting needle in its bow. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
The shrike flew in large circles about us, like an annoying gigantic bee. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
Doubtless the shrike and the Batelur and the bird of light followed by their own means. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
Only half-again the size of a house sparrow, the Loggerhead shrike eats house sparrows. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
And at that moment Miss Timmins bore down upon the child like a shrike on a chippy-bird. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
Mehl eluded one missile and maneuvered his aircraft to fire his shrike missiles at the site. From Wordnik.com. [Mehl, James P.] Reference
He watched her as she vanished in the blackened park, followed by the Batelur and the shrike. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
As I stared at the demon caressing the shrike, I became aware of a warm glow descending from the sky. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
We were scolded by the raspy voice of a loggerhead shrike as I made my notes at the start of the route. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Speed of digestion is also important for birds a shrike can digest a mouse in 3 hours and acidity helps. From Wordnik.com. [If a way to a man's heart is through his stomach... - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
You will notice in any picture of a shrike how admirably adapted is its curved beak for butchering purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
And traveling on the rooftops, accompanied by a Batelur, a shrike, and a bird of light, a wish watches over us. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
Endemic species include Rennell fantail Rhipidura rennelliana and Rennell shrike-bill Clytorynchus hamlinii (NT). From Wordnik.com. [East Rennell, Solomon Islands] Reference
That it might have been a barred cuckoo-shrike served no need in me, we were eye to eye in sympathy – it and me. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
That it might have been a barred cuckoo-shrike served no cause for me, we were eye to eye in sympathy – it and me. From Wordnik.com. [A Fragile Strand Of Unity (rev)] Reference
The so-called soft-head (or shrike) always settles on one and the same branch, where it falls a prey to the birdcatcher. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
A new species of shrike (Laniidae: Laniarius) from Somalia, verified by DNA sequence data from the only known individual. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Horn of Africa] Reference
Jondalar got up and came out of the tent in time to watch with admiration while she patiently coaxed a gray shrike to her hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Suddenly the silence was broken by the melodious call of a shrike, or to be scientifically accurate, of a black-headed gonolek. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
Ternate has a ground-thrush (Pitta) and a flycatcher; Banda has a pigeon, a shrike, and a Pitta; Ke has two flycatchers, a Zosterops. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
However, the shrike flapped its wings at a greater speed, tipping its rear as if it had spun on an axel, thereby diminishing its velocity. From Wordnik.com. [An East Wind Coming]
'I want you to remember my name, and fly away like a good little shrike when next you hear it,' Tanus told him, and nodded to Kratas again. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
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