Bird News | Bird Book | Bird Care | Home
State of the Nations' Birds
Dictionary | Encyclopaedia | Search | Visitor Information

 

Larder

A collection of prey items impaled on thorns or barbed wire by a shrike (family Laniidae). Larders consist mainly of small birds and mammals, reptiles and invertebrates such as insects and worms; their occurrence is not confined to any particular season. Shrikes are sometimes known as 'butcher birds'.

Search Bird Dictionary

From Peter Weaver's Birdwatcher's Dictionary
Copyright © 1981 by Peter Weaver


Bird News | Bird Book | Bird Care | Home
State of the Nations' Birds
Dictionary | Encyclopaedia | Search | Visitor Information | Mail to Bird On!
Sponsored by Jacobi Jayne & Company