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Definition of Northern shrike
1. Noun. A butcherbird of northern North America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Northern Shrike
Literary usage of Northern shrike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1872)
"—AWB THE GREAT northern shrike AND THE ENGLISH SPARROWS. — I have lately received
with much interest from a pupil in Rutgers College Grammar School, ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1894)
"On the cth of March, 1892, at Concord, Mass., I saw a northern shrike (Lanius
borealis) capture, kill and dispose of a meadow mouse. ..."
3. Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds by Mabel Osgood Wright (1897)
"... United States (Washington, DC, Kentucky, Kansas, Colorado, Arizona, northern
California). The northern shrike, though somewhat irregular in its comings ..."
4. The Review of Education (1902)
"Trailing Arbutus. 416 Medicinal Plant: Hops. 417 Bullock's Oriole. 418 Sanderling.
419 Great northern shrike. 420 Brandt's Cormorant. 421 Buffalo. ..."
5. A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America by Thomas Nuttall (1896)
"northern shrike. BUTCHER BIRD. LANIUS BOREALIS. CHAR. Above, bluish ash, paler
on rump ; under parts dull white, with fine wavy lines of brownish gray; ..."
6. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"If the wings measure 4} inches or more it will be the northern shrike or ...
In the northern shrike the breast and belly are ashy, usually marked with fine, ..."
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