On a late-January day in southwest Indiana, Jack Butcher and his Loogootee Lions boarded their team bus. The bus was bound for one of Loogootee's chief rivals, Springs Valley High School, a conference ...

The butcher bird is one of nature’s most bizarre contradictions: a small, beautiful songbird with an elegant voice and a savage feeding habit. It seems harmless at first sight, but underneath that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dotted along powers lines and treetops that outline Indiana’s crop fields, small black and grey songbirds perch and patiently ...

The red-backed shrike was once a summer regular in the U.K. Unfortunately, the bird became all but extinct by 1989, making sightings of this species incredibly rare. According to the Northern Echo, ...

Shrikes are small birds that hunt like raptors, preying on insects and small animals They impale their victims on thorns or sharp objects to tear apart and store food This behavior helps shrikes eat ...

Any feathered creature with the nickname butcher bird is sure to be a piece of work. Welcome to the carnivorous world of our most dangerous songbirds, the shrikes. At first blush, a shrike suggests a ...

Last December, as I was crossing the yard at the nature center, I heard an unusual bird song. It came from a small songbird perched near the top of an ash tree west of the barn, overlooking a brushy ...

These birds, known as butcherbirds, have rightfully earned their name from their unique habit of spearing their prey on the thorns and spikes of trees and cacti. Cousins of the shrike, which is shown ...