Here’s the part that messes with your head. The shrike has a beautiful, melodic song. It mimics other birds. It sounds like a joyful little choir.
It sings while its larder is full. It sings while a dragonfly is slowly dying on a thorn two feet away.
Passerine birds||passerine birds feeding their hungry babies||#birds
Is it a psychopath? Or just very, very efficient? I lean toward “efficient psychopath.”
Look up a video. I dare you. You’ll hear a sweet, warbling melody. Then the camera pans and you see a lizard dangling from a spike.
