Photo of the week

Northern shrike eating prey.

February 13, 2011 at 11:43PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
01041-001.13 Northern Shrike is feeding on a vole it impaled on a stick.  Predator, prey, bird of prey, butcher bird, raptor, mouse..
(Photo by Bill Marchel/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The northern shrike is actually a songbird that preys on mice, voles and other small birds. Shrikes are about the size of a robin. This shrike has captured a vole and is in the process of consuming the mouse-like rodent.

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