#butcherbird

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Voting ended onMay 17

Submitted for classification by @metal-autistic-coven

"I hereby submit the Loggerhead Shrike!

Also known as the 'butcher bird' for their gruesome tendency to impale their prey on thorns or barbed wire to eat later"

By JeffreyGammon - Own work, CC BY 4.0

[thespacebird]

Loggerhead Shrike

[zephyrenn]

Shrike

[minister-erik]

LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE (often called a "butcherbird, is known for impaling their prey on thorns, barbed wire, or branches to create a "larder" to eat later) - Composition Friday

© Erik McGregor - [email protected]

[proton-wobbler]

Great Backyard Bird Off - Australia - Semi-finals (2)

choose your favorite

Australian Magpie

Laughing Kookaburra

Voting ended onDec 28, 2025

Bird Support (under the Read More)

Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

Common, very large kingfisher with a dark eye and brown cheek patch. Typical calls include an immediately recognizable and distinctive laugh, which gives the species its common name. Abundant in parks, towns, forests, and campgrounds. (eBird)

Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina ribicen)

Large black-and-white bird with long, pale bill with dark tip. Black head, face, underparts, white nape, upperwing coverts, and rump, and either black or white back (subspecies vary in plumage). Widespread in farmland, parks, and open woodlands, where usually seen in pairs or groups strutting on the ground. Song a memorable fluty warble. (eBird)

Image sources: kookaburra (Elspeth M), magpie (Derek Stokes)

[best-bird-tournament]

Artamidae family

Which is the best bird?

Great woodswallow

Masked woodswallow

Australian magpie

Black butcherbird

Pied currawong

Pied butcherbird

Lowland peltops

Voting ended onNov 9, 2025

[birdstudies]

September 3, 2025 - Gray Butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus) Found in southern and parts of central Australia, these butcherbirds live in forests, savannas, shrublands, and cultivated areas. They eat invertebrates, small vertebrates, and some fruit, seeds, and nectar, hunting from perches before dropping onto prey on the ground or capturing it in short flights. Pairs build shallow bowl-shaped nests from thin twigs, grass, rootlets, hair, and other materials in trees. Females lay clutches of three or four eggs and incubate them alone. Both parents feed the chicks, sometimes assisted by a helper which is generally one of their chicks from a previous brood.

[jojos-birdwatching-adventure]

Oh boy… here we go…

This post will be super all over the place (not sure how to phrase it) so bear with me!

(Rambling under cut)

My first instinct was a Loggerhead Shrike (butcherbird) as well, but it physically doesn’t match him. But its methods of hunting match his… proclivities.

I started picking birds that (sort of) resemble him visually but they don’t match behavior wise. I picked the Baikal Teal (left) and the Spectacled Eider Duck (right)

With picking a vulture, I struggled with this too since none of them match visually, and I just really like vultures in general, but not Cioccolata :(

sorry Cioccolata fans :(

I’m thinking of settling this with a poll since I explained my general choices, but I’m torn between all of them. I’ll let you guys decide this one