They are small songbirds, but they are deadly. The loggerhead shrike, or "butcherbird," is slowly declining in Ohio.

Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire fences and promptly impale the prey upon a thorn or barb. This behavior ...

Two small, resident avians become more noticeable during winter months because many of their larger or more conspicuous relatives have abandoned our Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma region ...