Butcherbirb

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• Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gwenocwide :3

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is that when you try to eliminate everyone named Gwen via mass murder, nominal cleansing, and lexical apartheid?

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    • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      oh fuck

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• x4740N@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is a Butcherbird

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  Sincerely,

  An Australian

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    North American version is in the picture: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggerhead_shrike :)

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• Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What do they do!?

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  • salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    some shrikes are also known as butcherbirds because of the habit, particularly of males, of impaling prey onto plant spines within their territories. These larders have multiple functions, attracting females and serving as food stores.

    Wikipedia

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    • inbeesee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The god in Hyperion is named after that bird. Great scifi classic.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(Simmons_novel)

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh…

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Netflix and dismembering the prey I fucking impaled earlier?

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unspeakable horrors.

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    • mathemachristian@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thats alright we are talking via text.

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  • puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks to its strong beak, it can tear even the strongest 3-ply toilet paper to shreds if it has been moistened beforehand.

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hide your paper!

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  • TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not pretty.

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    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I love how you just casually used SCP wiki as a reference.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh damn! I thought they only did it with bugs. How TF did that tiny little bird capture and kill a rodent as big as it is? The bird doesn’t even have any talons!

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Very metal

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• EllenKelly@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s birds native to australia that have the same horrific habit and theyre equally adorable. They also have one of my favourite birdsongs

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butcherbird

  Butcherbirds are insect eaters for the most part, but will also feed on small lizards and other vertebrates. They get their name from their habit of impaling captured prey on a thorn, tree fork, or crevice. This “larder” is used to support the victim while it is being eaten, to store prey for later consumption, or to attract mates.

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  • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    or to attract mates.

    Like a butterfly collection?

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  • Nach@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hearing this made me sad that I don’t get to hear most of the north American song birds. IIRC they were either shot or out competed by European species like starlings or sparrows. 😟

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The robins, song sparrow, and chickadee are alive and well in my part of the PNW. Mostly the noise of modern life drowns them out, so you have to know when and where to find them. Song sparrow are super cute and have a great song. I have a couple pairs that live near me. One in my front yard and one in the back. They call back and forth most of the day. It’s wonderful

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• Hatandwatch@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love a scifi series called the Hyperion Cantos that has a supernatural creature called the Shrike that impales people on a “time tree” to steal their Entropy. It’s not at all adorable though.

  (major death of the author tho, and the 3rd/4th book get pretty problematic)

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I only got through the original Hyperion, it had great ideas but boring as hell execution. Anyways I always wanted to know, is the Shrike traveling in time backwards? Isn’t it’s destiny in the past?

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    • Hatandwatch@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Kind of? I think it mostly lives outside of time iirc, but it’s been some…time, since I digested it all. It definitely originated in the future though, you find out in the Endymion books.

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    • bufalo1973@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It has one mission: to make the human target that is the greatest foe of the machines to show up and kill him/her. And the way is hurting humans in that particular way.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hey orcas are cute too

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• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Oi, cunt!”

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• Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Songbirds in general can be unexpectedly vicious

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• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s the face of a stone cold killer

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