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 ...

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 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, ...

Indiana has a rich biodiversity with thousands of species in unique habitats, but growth and development have changed some of those fragile ecosystems and threaten the wildlife they support. IndyStar ...

Most birds go for seeds and worms, but one opts for a darker menu and brings its own cutlery. Shrikes are small birds belonging to the suborder Passeri, but they have hunting habits of a raptor. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The red-backed shrike was once a summer regular in the U.K. Unfortunately, the bird became all but extinct by 1989, making ...

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 ...

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 ...