Gwenocwide :3
Is that when you try to eliminate everyone named Gwen via mass murder, nominal cleansing, and lexical apartheid?
oh fuck
Run for the hills!
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🎶 Epic Guitar Solo 🎸 🎶
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North American version is in the picture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggerhead_shrike :)
What do they do!?
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.
The god in Hyperion is named after that bird. Great scifi classic.
Netflix and dismembering the prey I fucking impaled earlier?
Oh…
Thanks to its strong beak, it can tear even the strongest 3-ply toilet paper to shreds if it has been moistened beforehand.
I love how you just casually used SCP wiki as a reference.
I was curious if people would notice, and it seems not everyone did. ;) Maybe someone got to be the daily 5,000 for SCP.
Very metal
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!
Unspeakable horrors.
Thats alright we are talking via text.
Actual vlad dracula shit, jesus christ
There’s birds native to australia that have the same horrific habit and theyre equally adorable. They also have one of my favourite birdsongs
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.
or to attract mates.
Like a butterfly collection?
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. 😟
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
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)
That’s the face of a stone cold killer
“Oi, cunt!”