I have a friend, a pied butcherbird, who cannot sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

Beehler also stated that the forests from Mt. Riu eastward are very important to the survival of the Tagula honeyeater and the Tagula butcherbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisiade Archipelago rain forests] Reference

Cell Phones Heed Call of the Wild << Back to Article  :  Music   Cell Phones Heed Call of the Wild Katie Dean 10.30.04 Cell-phone users in the United States will soon have the option to set their ringers to the song of the pied butcherbird, cry of the screaming piha or tremolo of a loon, among other critters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cell Phones Heed Call of the Wild] Reference

The determination and fierce resolution of the shrike, or butcherbird, despite his small size, is most marked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Near London] Reference

By singing just after the butcherbird vocalizes, a male can be sure that females are paying attention and will hear their song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ars Technica] Reference

Usually it's parrots, magpies, pigeons, honeysuckers or finches and sometimes we're blessed with the odd butcherbird dropping by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas] Reference

First, they played butcherbird calls to 90 male fairy wrens and listened to hear whether the male sang a Type II song in response or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ars Technica] Reference

They played either a solo butcherbird call, a solo Type II song, or a butcherbird call followed by a Type II song, and recorded the ladies' reactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ars Technica] Reference

The second possibility is that when female fairy wrens hear a butcherbird call, they go on high alert and are particularly tuned in to their environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ars Technica] Reference

Furthermore, when butcherbird playbacks occurred, males sometimes turned to females and performed visual displays such as the interestingly-named "sea horse flight,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ars Technica] Reference