They are small songbirds, but they are deadly. The loggerhead shrike, or "butcherbird," is slowly declining in Ohio.
Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went extinct.
Aotearoa New Zealand's flightless parrot, the kākāpō, evolved two different color types to potentially help them avoid detection by a now-extinct apex predator, Lara Urban at Helmholtz AI, Germany and ...
Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire fences and promptly impale the prey upon a thorn or barb. This behavior ...
A bald eagle was shot on Thanksgiving and later taken to a Navarre wildlife sanctuary. The eagle died, but the sanctuary is ...
Aotearoa New Zealand's flightless parrot, the k k p , evolved two different color types to potentially help them avoid detection by a now-extinct apex predator, researchers report. Aotearoa New ...
A Haast’s eagle attacks a moa pair. John Megahan, PLOS Biology, 3(1): e20 via Wikipedia under CC By 2.5 Evolution has a fondness for big birds. During the past 66 million years, repeated on different ...