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- noun Plural form of
butcherbird .
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Examples
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Mostly, though, they were called butcherbirds, and with good reason.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2009
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This and other shrike species are also called 'butcherbirds' (no relative of the Ozzie birds of the same name) from their rather gruesome but very practical habit of impaling prey items on thorns for later consumption.
unknown title 2009
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Malurus splendens tend to sing a particular melody called a "Type II song" just after gray butcherbirds
Ars Technica Kate Shaw 2011
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Malurus splendens tend to sing a particular melody called a "Type II song" just after gray butcherbirds
Ars Technica Kate Shaw 2011
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This may be because-as long as the fairy wrens are paying attention-butcherbirds are unlikely to snatch them.
Ars Technica Kate Shaw 2011
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This may be because-as long as the fairy wrens are paying attention-butcherbirds are unlikely to snatch them.
Ars Technica Kate Shaw 2011
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This may be because-as long as the fairy wrens are paying attention-butcherbirds are unlikely to snatch them.
Ars Technica Kate Shaw 2011
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Malurus splendens tend to sing a particular melody called a "Type II song" just after gray butcherbirds
Ars Technica Kate Shaw 2011
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Paramythiidae: tit berrypecker and crested berrypeckers Pachycephalidae: whistlers, shrike-thrushes, pitohuis and allies Artamidae: wood swallows, butcherbirds, currawongs and Australian Magpie Acanthisittidae: New Zealand wrens
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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Paramythiidae: tit berrypecker and crested berrypeckers Pachycephalidae: whistlers, shrike-thrushes, pitohuis and allies Artamidae: wood swallows, butcherbirds, currawongs and Australian Magpie Acanthisittidae: New Zealand wrens
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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