"Brutally torture" bruh killing something with a spike is brutally torturing them now, i wonder what you would say to a human slicing an animals neck with a knife.
Imagine not knowing about this bird, being new to the area, and finding dead rodents impaled on the shrubs around your new home. I'd likely think someone was trying to scare me or threatening my family, lol. Nope, just the local birds.
Their German name is "Neuntöter"(nine-murderer) or "Rotrückenwürger"(red-backed strangler) and I think these names are pretty unsettling. When I was in 1st grade and we learned about local flora and fauna I was creeped out and fascinated by those birds.
The shrike is one of my favourite birds to photo shoot during the summer. Just like the loggerhead shrike, the red-backed shrike searches for its prey very openly, perfectly posing for you. And once they have kids they're even easier to find, because their young sound like the whiniest kid in the mall.
There is a scene in both the Books and Children's TV Show of "The Animals of Farthing Wood" that feature these birds grabbing a bunch of mice and impaling them on thorns. In the TV Show it is only a quick showing of the mice on the thorns, but it is quite a gruesome scene with blood dripping from the bodies, onto the branches, and further dripping down. The scene of the mice running away and screaming as they are caught, carried away, and dropped is quite a bit longer. This scene/ situation is probably one of the most gruesome scenes depicted in both the Book & TV Show.
Was one of the main characters a badger? because I think I might have seen that too Never mind, I just googled it It was the one I saw as a kid, as well
As mentioned in the video, there's a totally unrelated type of bird in Australia that uses the same method to deal with its prey, also called a Butcher Bird (Cracticus torquatus is one of the seven Australian species, the best looking). They too, are really beautiful in form and sound, great mimics, like their close cousins, the Australian Magpie (again, no relation to the Northern Hemisphere magpie). They are not endangered as we've made an environment that suits them and brings plenty of prey so meals can be easily got. While they do occasionally spike their prey, they mostly use the crook of a tree as a larder. And they are so beautiful to look at. There was one sitting on my fence just a day or so ago, outside my office window.
Cracticus and Lanius are both in the infraorder Corvides, but no more closely related than that. I consider the entire infraorder Corvides to be unclean, and the rest of the passerines clean. Besides the crow (עורב), which is in the Foul Fowl List, the infraorder contains the pitohui (poisonous), the shrikes, the vangas and helmetshrikes, the birds of paradise, and various others.
The Loggerhead Shrike is the bird that got me into Ornithology as a kid. I was out fixing loose sections of barbed wire fence on my parents farm and I noticed a ton of grasshoppers impaled on the barbs. I asked my dad what was responsible for it and he told me it was a butcher bird. I was so fascinated. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen a bird do!
I forgot what these birds were called so when I was watching Hannibal for the first time several years ago, I was like “wtf is a shrike” and then I was reminded of these deeply violent little impalers lmao.
samee i just found out about them watching hannibal for the first time lol i never would’ve known about a murderess little bird if it wasn’t for the minnesota shrike, man i love hannibal
Vlad the Impaler: Birb edition A video on the short tailed shearwaters please. Their migratory path is impressive. From Alaska to Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia, with a trip to Antarctica waters to feed. If budgets allow, filming at Phillip Island would be *chef's kiss * and you guys filmed there for the Little Penguins episode years ago.
@@MarigoldFoxMama would be nice. I’ve actually looked into it before but unfortunately not many in my area as it is and jobs are so hard to come by here. Especially in wildlife conservation. I’ll keep trying and doing what I can to help though!
This inspired an idea of a butcherbird who satisfies their impaling prey tendencies by pinning and mounting insects on their walls for their entomology
wow- 'shrike' is the name of a terrifying entity in the an amazibg book series 'Hyperion Cantos' by Sci-Fi author Dan Simmons... amazing to make the connection i was not aware of... made my day!
Yasssss!!! There is a mention as to why the shrike is named the shrike in the book they compare these birds to the act of the shrike taking some of its victims in a pending it to the tree and lasting eternity stuck to the tree if it doesn't outright kill you first those are the lucky ones it's the ones where they didn't find the bodies that are thought to be impaled on the tree
Since we're talking literature - there are also the "Shrykes" from the Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, and they're a species of vicious bird people that also endulge into brutal killing methods.
@@activatekruger446 This thing travels through space and time instantaneously, no one really knows its purpose aside from snatching people, and putting them in the "Tree of pain" in which you get impaled to, feel most of the pain and you prevents you from dying.
My dad was just telling me about this bird a few days ago because I play dead by daylight and the game reminded him of this bird :) Now I see why, brutal game and a brutal bird
In Maharashtra, India we see some common shrikes like the Great Grey Shrike, Bay-backed Shrike & Long-tailed Shrike. The local people here call these birds as 'खाटीक' (Khaateek) in Marathi. This translates to 'Butcher' in English.
I have a request from myself and my nephew! We'd like to learn about snake eating birds in North America, especially the upper Plains states. He heard about roadrunners from me, and secretary birds, but then he discovered there may be OWLS that also specialize in killing snakes!!! Even if that's not quite accurate, I'd be fascinated to learn more!
Where I live there are many Red-backed Shrikes. Awesome birds! Super useful here because they catch Mole crickets witch damage vegetables. Once our cat ate their young.Both parent birds did not hesitate to continually attack her for 15min or so even if the young were already gone. True feathered warriors!
There is an incredible book series called The Hyperion Cantos that has a character based on the behavior of the shrike, though if you think the bird itself is grotesque you might not want to read it lol, it's not a bird and it's prey are people, and the thorns it impales them upon keep them alive for eternity while causing unlimited pain, and the tree of thorns involved (called the Tree Of Pain) has millions to billions of individual and occupied thorns. It's an incredible story but not for the faint of heart lol.
In the first (second also perhaps) yes. Terifying and mysterious monster. In book 3 and 4 though 🤦🏼♂️… the Shrike gets nerfed and reduced to a plot armor for the main characters
The Shrike stood at least three meters tall. Even when it was at rest, the silvered surface of the thing seemed to shift and flow like mercury suspended in midair. ]The light[ reflected from sharp surfaces and glinted on the curved metal blades protruding from the thing's forehead, four wrists, oddly jointed elbows, knees, armored back, and thorax.
You kno whats funny? Two years ago, I tried really _really_ hard to get a video about shrikes made, but Animalogic claimed that they weren't going to do it because the _memes would be too bad._ Thank you for coming around.
They are extremely adaptive to their environments. Where I'm from, shrikes have learned to impale their prey on barbed wires. We often keep them around to control pests around our house
In Australia, we also have birds named magpies, although I believe they're not at all related. Their warble is a wonderful wide-ranging sound, they're great mimics and some can be trained to mimic human voices. They are everywhere, having found urban areas very much to their liking, They have become sporting club mascots, which is one of their greatest problems, especially the Collingwood Magpie supporters, the a-hole equivalent here.
I first heard of the shrike/butcher bird from Steve Reviews' review of the British 90's animated TV series called "The Animals of Farthing Wood" and it instantly became my favorite species of bird.
I learned about these birds from some youtuber that used them for the reason to talk about a sci-fi alien race that has some kind of tree that follows it and has a symbiotic relationship with it.
I didn't expect the video to mention it but I've written this anyway. Australia has it's own Butcherbird. There are two genera of Butcherbirds in Australia, Melloria, and Cracticus. Their predatory, butchering, and larder keeping behaviour is similar to that of the Butcherbird in this video. Australian Butcherbirds also sing very well, almost as well as the Nightingale. Australian Butcherbirds are only distantly related to Shrikes, indeed Australian birds in general are very distantly related to birds on other continents.
May Have found my new favorite media to put myself to sleep with.. Something so calming about this one? People seem so shocked but my other favorite channel is the 1 where all the animals are either owls or kestrels in their nests with their babies?
Snap its prey's neck Divebombing it Impale it Gutted it And if their chicks don't make it, they eat feed them to their surviving chicks God, this birds know no chills
Yay! I love shrikes ever since I did a project on them for school. No one ever really talks about them, so I didn't expect to see a Animalogic video on it 😁
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less insects equals less birds :/
Can you please talk about the most famous pet bird in the world in your next video, the *BUDGIES* ??
W channel for not bluring guts.
The Raven Guard from Warhammer 40k are inspired by this bird
@aranya iyer If Hindus migrate to other regions on earth, Indian caste would become a world problem”- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
She sounds so wholesome describing how they brutally torture their prey
Maim and kill, sure, but torture?
And the prey of these birds are hole-some.
"Brutally torture" bruh killing something with a spike is brutally torturing them now, i wonder what you would say to a human slicing an animals neck with a knife.
@@doublemosasaur5091 what?
This made me laugh a lot haha thank you for your comment
Imagine not knowing about this bird, being new to the area, and finding dead rodents impaled on the shrubs around your new home. I'd likely think someone was trying to scare me or threatening my family, lol. Nope, just the local birds.
It’s just kabobs for birds! Lol
Then you'll think at least one psychopath maniac is around your home
@@Cleeonthere is, it’s the bird
@@nfwrambo yap 🙂
Their German name is "Neuntöter"(nine-murderer) or "Rotrückenwürger"(red-backed strangler) and I think these names are pretty unsettling.
When I was in 1st grade and we learned about local flora and fauna I was creeped out and fascinated by those birds.
Somehow, everything sounds more metal in German.
Completely creepy names!
In russian and most other slavic languages, they called "sorokoput" ("impaler").
Pretty accurate names for their level of brutality haha
@@vladcrow4225 yes even on unrelated Filipino languages. We call them "mamumugot" or the impaler, we also call them berdugo or the executioner
The shrike is one of my favourite birds to photo shoot during the summer. Just like the loggerhead shrike, the red-backed shrike searches for its prey very openly, perfectly posing for you. And once they have kids they're even easier to find, because their young sound like the whiniest kid in the mall.
That is hilarious
Side note I read your name after reading your comments and I read your name as beakfast
🤣❤️
@@borttorbbq2556 beakfeast
Do the photos show just the bird? Or does it also include whatever rodent was impaled by it?
Animalogic is truly one of my favorite channels. Danielle, Tasha and Aranya are splendid educators.
There is a scene in both the Books and Children's TV Show of "The Animals of Farthing Wood" that feature these birds grabbing a bunch of mice and impaling them on thorns. In the TV Show it is only a quick showing of the mice on the thorns, but it is quite a gruesome scene with blood dripping from the bodies, onto the branches, and further dripping down. The scene of the mice running away and screaming as they are caught, carried away, and dropped is quite a bit longer. This scene/ situation is probably one of the most gruesome scenes depicted in both the Book & TV Show.
Dang, and for kids too
Maybe a bit more brutal that they need at that age
The mice that were impaled were named cast members, too. They were not anonymous background parts.
Jesus what a blast from the past, that show had so many horrible deaths in it, that was probably the most gruesome though
Was one of the main characters a badger? because I think I might have seen that too
Never mind, I just googled it
It was the one I saw as a kid, as well
i literally read, “Animals Farthing in the Woods”
As mentioned in the video, there's a totally unrelated type of bird in Australia that uses the same method to deal with its prey, also called a Butcher Bird (Cracticus torquatus is one of the seven Australian species, the best looking). They too, are really beautiful in form and sound, great mimics, like their close cousins, the Australian Magpie (again, no relation to the Northern Hemisphere magpie). They are not endangered as we've made an environment that suits them and brings plenty of prey so meals can be easily got. While they do occasionally spike their prey, they mostly use the crook of a tree as a larder. And they are so beautiful to look at. There was one sitting on my fence just a day or so ago, outside my office window.
Cracticus and Lanius are both in the infraorder Corvides, but no more closely related than that.
I consider the entire infraorder Corvides to be unclean, and the rest of the passerines clean. Besides the crow (עורב), which is in the Foul Fowl List, the infraorder contains the pitohui (poisonous), the shrikes, the vangas and helmetshrikes, the birds of paradise, and various others.
The Loggerhead Shrike is the bird that got me into Ornithology as a kid. I was out fixing loose sections of barbed wire fence on my parents farm and I noticed a ton of grasshoppers impaled on the barbs. I asked my dad what was responsible for it and he told me it was a butcher bird. I was so fascinated. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen a bird do!
That shrike killed a friggen rabbit/hare! The power they must have and with such little twiggy legs, too!
I forgot what these birds were called so when I was watching Hannibal for the first time several years ago, I was like “wtf is a shrike” and then I was reminded of these deeply violent little impalers lmao.
I don't think I ever heard of them before, and I didn't bother looking them up for Hannibal. Now this is all making sense.
samee i just found out about them watching hannibal for the first time lol i never would’ve known about a murderess little bird if it wasn’t for the minnesota shrike, man i love hannibal
love this lady. her sense of humour is amazing and the way she speaks. ugh. damn sis. love you
Imagine getting Shriked by a shrike the size of Quetzalcoatlus!!
“You just got shriked, son!!”
Wtf? 🤣
Just no....
@@borttorbbq2556 Yes
The Animals of Farthing Wood scene lives in my head rent-free
I was looking for this comment. It is trauma all over again
Farting wood?
If Alfred Hitchcock didn't get his inspiration from these birds, I don't know where.
Im so glad somebody said this before me
I thought it was seagulls.
You mean Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Vlad the Impaler: Birb edition
A video on the short tailed shearwaters please. Their migratory path is impressive. From Alaska to Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia, with a trip to Antarctica waters to feed. If budgets allow, filming at Phillip Island would be *chef's kiss * and you guys filmed there for the Little Penguins episode years ago.
I wish I could breed them and return them to the wild here in Mississippi. It’s so rare to see them here now. Sad😢
If you get a job at a wildlife rehabilitation center, or something similar, you could at least help conserve the species in your area
@@MarigoldFoxMama would be nice. I’ve actually looked into it before but unfortunately not many in my area as it is and jobs are so hard to come by here. Especially in wildlife conservation. I’ll keep trying and doing what I can to help though!
Bird: **Basically learns how to use a fork**
Humans: What a monster! D:
Is your food living when you use your fork
@@trumtrum5510Does _any_ predator in the world care about their food still living, though?
im asking a question@@Nyerguds
In the Philippines, they go by various names, "Tarat" for their calls and "Mamumugot" (the impaler), "Berdugo" (the executioner) for their behaviour.
lol "Sparrow" po ang "tarat", ibang ibon to lods
Nah, mamumugot is not "impaler" it's decapitator.
mamumugot is more closer to the act of decapitating someone rather than impaling them
This inspired an idea of a butcherbird who satisfies their impaling prey tendencies by pinning and mounting insects on their walls for their entomology
wow- 'shrike' is the name of a terrifying entity in the an amazibg book series 'Hyperion Cantos' by Sci-Fi author Dan Simmons... amazing to make the connection i was not aware of... made my day!
The entity you mentioned, what is its motivation?
Yasssss!!! There is a mention as to why the shrike is named the shrike in the book they compare these birds to the act of the shrike taking some of its victims in a pending it to the tree and lasting eternity stuck to the tree if it doesn't outright kill you first those are the lucky ones it's the ones where they didn't find the bodies that are thought to be impaled on the tree
Since we're talking literature - there are also the "Shrykes" from the Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, and they're a species of vicious bird people that also endulge into brutal killing methods.
@@activatekruger446 This thing travels through space and time instantaneously, no one really knows its purpose aside from snatching people, and putting them in the "Tree of pain" in which you get impaled to, feel most of the pain and you prevents you from dying.
The "Hyperion Cantos" is one of my favorite series of books. I was looking for someone to comment on the series. Lol
I found one here in the Philippines and they're a bit terrifying... They're impale Sparrows on Bougainvillea spikes.
I knew they impaled insects but I had no idea they impaled small birds and mammals too.
Even small reptiles and amphibians
I would like an "Impale and Save For Later" refrigerator magnet with one of these tiny adorable murderers.
My dad was just telling me about this bird a few days ago because I play dead by daylight and the game reminded him of this bird :) Now I see why, brutal game and a brutal bird
Being eaten by a bird has got to be the worst fate imaginable
In Maharashtra, India we see some common shrikes like the Great Grey Shrike, Bay-backed Shrike & Long-tailed Shrike. The local people here call these birds as 'खाटीक' (Khaateek) in Marathi. This translates to 'Butcher' in English.
A birb who my ancestor's would be proud of 🥲
Who was your ancestor? Vlad the impaler??
@@activatekruger446probably a butcher
This little impaler is the reason the villain of the book I’m writing is named Shrike. Love this bloodthirsty bird, thanks for the wonderful video!
I just love your joyful enthusiasm when talking about these 'vicious terror machines'. It makes my day.😆
I have a request from myself and my nephew! We'd like to learn about snake eating birds in North America, especially the upper Plains states. He heard about roadrunners from me, and secretary birds, but then he discovered there may be OWLS that also specialize in killing snakes!!! Even if that's not quite accurate, I'd be fascinated to learn more!
Suggestion: Another metal bird. The Vampire Finch. My daughter once showed me a video of this bloodthirsty bird. I wasn't ready.
I've heard about them! Pretty amazing, and horrifying what we find in nature! ^^
Aranya: "The Loggerhead Shrike is one of the cutest predators of all time."
American Kestrel: "Hello...I don't believe we've ever met."
Gruesome, yet a clear documentation of "tool use" - something we humans think we own!
Where I live there are many Red-backed Shrikes. Awesome birds! Super useful here because they catch Mole crickets witch damage vegetables. Once our cat ate their young.Both parent birds did not hesitate to continually attack her for 15min or so even if the young were already gone. True feathered warriors!
Vlad would love to have one of these birds as his pet
I agree lol
There is an incredible book series called The Hyperion Cantos that has a character based on the behavior of the shrike, though if you think the bird itself is grotesque you might not want to read it lol, it's not a bird and it's prey are people, and the thorns it impales them upon keep them alive for eternity while causing unlimited pain, and the tree of thorns involved (called the Tree Of Pain) has millions to billions of individual and occupied thorns. It's an incredible story but not for the faint of heart lol.
I mean it’s not just based on them it is literally named “The Shrike” lol
In the first (second also perhaps) yes. Terifying and mysterious monster. In book 3 and 4 though 🤦🏼♂️… the Shrike gets nerfed and reduced to a plot armor for the main characters
The Shrike stood at least three meters tall. Even when it was at rest, the silvered surface of the thing seemed to shift and flow like mercury suspended in midair. ]The light[ reflected from sharp surfaces and glinted on the curved metal blades protruding from the thing's forehead, four wrists, oddly jointed elbows, knees, armored back, and thorax.
I've been fascinated by Shrike when I first learnt of them years ago. Such interesting birds.
You should do a video on the Agouti and it's nutcracking bite. There are lots of odd little animals on our world that not enough people know about.
Thanks!
I knew I recognized the landscape! Yay Saskatchewan!!!
This bird is called "törnskata" in Swedish. Translated into English that will be "thorn magpie".
I actually didnt knew a bird like this exist
Nature is awesome if not a tad scary at times 🥰
Beauty and brains ❤ I could listen to her all day ❤ *sigh*
Shrikes are my favorite non-raptor birds. They're like Yoda fused with a Yautja with a dash of feathers and a beak
I Imagine Vlad the Impaler would have loved to have one of these as a pet.
Picard season 3, episode 2, brought me here.🖖🏽🤘🏽
So pretty yet so deadly, never doubt the ferocity of an animal
I can't wait for the Pronghorn episode :P I hope Danielle gets to see one, they are pretty elusive.
Hell yeah!!
Elf owl next, please!
Danielle is so amazingly talented I'm excited to get ahold of some prints!
The only time I enjoyed waiting on an oil change was when one of these was perched in the neighboring field
This is amazing!
"The environment is my fork, and I will make you one with it."
Shrike, probably
love birds of prey segment
Shrikes to their preys: relax, we’re just going to watch a movie and take some pictures.
I don't like how she keeps saying things like it being aggressive. It's not "pent up aggression" - it's hunting for food
Even more proof as to how savage dinosaur must have been....
Shrikes are like bird of prey, without the hooked talons.
You should do a video about the blood drinking squirrels that bite deers jugular veins before feasting on their vitamin rich organs.
Iyer is so beautiful and her smile is so infectious. 😍
You kno whats funny? Two years ago, I tried really _really_ hard to get a video about shrikes made, but Animalogic claimed that they weren't going to do it because the _memes would be too bad._ Thank you for coming around.
They are extremely adaptive to their environments. Where I'm from, shrikes have learned to impale their prey on barbed wires. We often keep them around to control pests around our house
Could you talk about the Magpie? I genuinely believe they are the A-holes of Colorado, at least in the foothills of the Rocky's
In Australia, we also have birds named magpies, although I believe they're not at all related. Their warble is a wonderful wide-ranging sound, they're great mimics and some can be trained to mimic human voices. They are everywhere, having found urban areas very much to their liking, They have become sporting club mascots, which is one of their greatest problems, especially the Collingwood Magpie supporters, the a-hole equivalent here.
Just leaving a comment to help out the video. Love the channel.
I first heard of the shrike/butcher bird from Steve Reviews' review of the British 90's animated TV series called "The Animals of Farthing Wood" and it instantly became my favorite species of bird.
My parents own a condo down in Florida there’s a cow pasture nearby surrounded by a barbed wire fence and strikes use it to impale insects.
Imagine if these ladies spoke of the mannerisms of *human* serial killers with this much enthusiasm.
Shrikes are just cute little floofballs!
These and potoos are my favorite birbs
I love Shrikes, they are so bizarre and interesting. I put them in monstrous form into DnD for a reason lol.
I loved just how optimistically you delivered this video with. Metal is correct.
I first learned about Shrikes from Hannibal the tv show and man…this was awesome to watch. They’re wild.
Brought back memories of The Animals of Farthing Wood
I learned about these birds from some youtuber that used them for the reason to talk about a sci-fi alien race that has some kind of tree that follows it and has a symbiotic relationship with it.
Was it from the book Hyperion?
That's so metal dude.
Hannibal as hell. Seriously girls, you have some of the world's best animal content.
I saw them as a child and young man, but now they are gone along with many other bird Species. This is so sad.
I had no idea that birds would do a Mortal Kombat move.
Love the Iranya's British accent at the end of the video looking for a common nighthawk.
Richard Kadrey wrote an awesome fantasy novel called “The Butcher Bird”. The main character identifies with the shrike.
Birds are so fierce that she couldn’t get out of the car
I didn't expect the video to mention it but I've written this anyway. Australia has it's own Butcherbird. There are two genera of Butcherbirds in Australia, Melloria, and Cracticus. Their predatory, butchering, and larder keeping behaviour is similar to that of the Butcherbird in this video. Australian Butcherbirds also sing very well, almost as well as the Nightingale. Australian Butcherbirds are only distantly related to Shrikes, indeed Australian birds in general are very distantly related to birds on other continents.
Loggerhead shrikes are like the staffies of the bird world
A merch ad for poster-sized sketches of animals?
(Lynxs are in the description)
The video turned out sensational, keep it up. 😉
May Have found my new favorite media to put myself to sleep with.. Something so calming about this one? People seem so shocked but my other favorite channel is the 1 where all the animals are either owls or kestrels in their nests with their babies?
Does this mean that the bird has an understanding of storing food for later or is it just doing it instinctively?
Very cool. I had no idea these birds were like this.
Do they hunt any pest species? Setting up a perimeter of thorny bushes around farmlands to house them and deter other interlopers seems pretty handy.
The clips you are showing from various shrikes are amazing and terrifying.
These guys are the definition of "life can be brutal"
“Generous lovers,” lol.
I gave up taxonomy a long time ago. I went phylogenetic cladistics in 2006 and never looked back.
Imagine if news reports were brought like this with a joke and a smile.
Great Video..I have always loved these Birds
I DIDN'T KNOW DANIELLE DREW ALL THE ILLUSTRATIONS JHGIUhjkgyuhkghjghAYGIYUGHASHBAF HOW ARE THEY ARE SO TALLENTED
Thank you for the video !!!
Snap its prey's neck
Divebombing it
Impale it
Gutted it
And if their chicks don't make it, they eat feed them to their surviving chicks
God, this birds know no chills
Yay! I love shrikes ever since I did a project on them for school. No one ever really talks about them, so I didn't expect to see a Animalogic video on it 😁