Northern Shrike

The Northern Shrike is a predatory songbird with a thick hook bill. The Immature Northern Shrike is more brownish than adults with fine brownish bars on the underside and narrow black mask.
This tough bird feeds on rodents and smaller birds for much of the year. It spends the summer in the far north, appearing in southern Canada and the lower 48 States only in winter. Solitary and wary, the shrike is likely to be seen perched at the top of a lone tree in an open field, watching for prey.
The Northern Shrike breeds in taiga and tundra it winters in southern Canada and the northern United States.

Northern Shrike
The Northern Shrike is a predatory songbird with a thick hook bill. The Immature Northern Shrike is more brownish than adults with fine brownish bars on the underside and narrow black mask.
Immature Northern Shrike
The Immature Northern Shrike is more brownish than adults with fine brownish bars on the underside and narrow black mask.
Immature Northern Shrike
The Immature Northern Shrike is more brownish than adults with fine brownish bars on the underside and narrow black mask.
Northern Shrike
The Northern Shrike is a predatory songbird with a thick hook bill. The Immature Northern Shrike is more brownish than adults with fine brownish bars on the underside and narrow black mask.

Northern Shrike
The Northern Shrike is a predatory songbird with a thick hook bill. The Immature Northern Shrike is more brownish than adults with fine brownish bars on the underside and narrow black mask.