shrike

Quite common at this time of the year. Found mainly in the lowlands foraging for insects and small reptiles.

The Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus is a small passerine bird which belongs to the shrike family. It breeds in open woodland and farmland with scattered trees in China, Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East. It winters mainly in Malaysia and Indonesia. It has a wide distribution and is not...

in my garden

A lucky shot just outside my hotel room at the Senegambia.

Brown Shrike - Full frame capture of a Shrike with tall grass for background. 300mm @ 1/125 f6.3 ISO-200

Brown Shrike, Asian species casually occurring in Alaska from the western Aleutians, St. Lawrence Island, and Anchorage; fall and winter records from California. Preferred habitats include lowlands, farmlands, downlands, and orchards with thickets and scrub. 300mm @ 1/80 f10 iTTL flash fill...

Loggerhead with a spider.

This guy pose for few pictures before he started hunting for bugs.

Taken at city park, with camera hand held to scope lens.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Brown Shrike, Lanius cristatus, is a small passerine bird in the shrike family. It was formerly often considered conspecific with the closely-related Red-backed Shrike, L. collurio, and Isabelline Shrike, L. isabellinus. This bird breeds across central...

Red-backed Shrike

What I like out of this picture if the detail on the bill, you can see his "tooth".

Brown Shrike with grasshopper meal. Technical note :- Shutter priority 1/500 f5.6 with iTTL flash fill -1.3EV Image slightly cropped.

Shrike with frog in backlight.

Brown Shrike Technical note :- 300mm @ f8 1/500 flash sync ISO-200, full frame image (2000 X 3008)

Taken at close range from a mobile 'hide' (vehicle), about 10-12 feet. Daylight with flash fill-in. Technical note :- Aperture priority (-1EV) @ f8, flash sync 1/500 iTTL -1.3EV. Image cropped to fit square format.

Brown Shrike with cricket in beak! Technical note :- 300mm @ f9 1/500 flash sync, ISO-200 slightly cropped. Shutter priority -1EV, flash fill -1.3EV.

Add on to gallery. Another action of shrike

Brown Shrike - Main diet is small reptiles (frogs, lizards & etc) and large insects (grasshoper, dragonfly & etc). A very efficient hunter, kill rate is nearly 100%.

300mm @ f5.6 1/60, flash fill, ISO-200

This dead tree is just next to my house and many birds, almost every morning are resting here or morning carol. This Brown Shrike is a male.

Resting at the area of airport watching for any new planes arriving. Spotted this shrike perched on the runaway fence post which I think wishing to onboard and migrating to new places.

Took this confiding individual outside my accom. in East Tsavo reserve