loggerhead shrike

noun

: a large-headed gray shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) of North America with a black mask around the eyes

Examples of loggerhead shrike in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This preserve offers a few unique birding opportunities, starting with one characteristic bird of the Central Valley nearly absent from Marin: the loggerhead shrike. —Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025

The fire also swept through parts of the island that have rare habitats for sensitive plant and animal species found nowhere else, such as the endangered San Clemente loggerhead shrike, a carnivorous songbird. —Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024

The most notable birding highlights last week — despite the super heat and humidity — were a Mississippi kite in Provincetown, a black-necked stilt and a sandwich tern at Nantucket, and a loggerhead shrike in Orange. —BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022

Franklin County: a regional loggerhead shrike at the Orange Airport. —BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022

The loggerhead shrike is a rare breeder in Minnesota that gets replaced in winter by the northern shrike, which begins arriving in late October. —Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021

In a single day early in his career, Seriff could spot several of the fierce little predators called loggerhead shrikes. —Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 12 Apr. 2018

On the down side, the CBC data is helping to track the steady declines of such iconic North American species as Northern bobwhite, American kestrel and loggerhead shrike. —James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1811, in the meaning defined above

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