Articles from the February 7, 2006 edition

Updated Feb 7, 2006

The Northern Shrike lives here only through the winter, one of only two shrikes that inhabit North America (there are none in South America). The other is the Loggerhead, which nests all around us in spring and summer. (There are casual records of the Brown Shrike wandering over from Siberia into North America, but they are rare.) Shrikes are the sharks in the fishpond — songbirds that eat songbirds. As such, they are actually raptors in disguise — not true hawks of the Family... Full story