Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1476 🐦

🦉 The brown shrike (Lanius cristatus)

📚 Lanius (lat.) butcher; killer (name - for impaling prey on thorns like butcher's carcasses)
📚 cristatus lat.: crista crest, cristatus crested, cristatella reduced. from cristatus

This bird is also known as the Siberian Shrike.
Surprisingly, despite its small size (about the size of a sparrow), the bird is a full-fledged carnivorous predator.
This little predator feeds on small rodents, lizards, and insects.

And he does it very interestingly, because he hangs the corpses of his victims on sharp branches, thorns, like a butcher.

And also, like a cat or a dog, he wags his tail depending on his mood.