svihla@evax6.eng.fsu.edu (C. Kurt Svihla) (12/04/90)
I go to school in Tallahassee, FL. The School of Engineering is blessed with a bucolic location that results in a lot of local wildlife wandering by the many windows of our building. There is a thriving community of loggerhead shrikes which are especially hard to miss. I've seen them mainly go after insects and other small prey. I was walking out to go to lunch the other day, when I saw one hopping around the body of what looked to be some sort of dove. The dove was bigger than the shrike but was undeniably dead, as the shrike was feeding from his carcass, having made a sizeable dent already. Could the shrike have killed what appeared to be a much larger bird? Do they scavenge? Could he have simply found the dead bird and then decided to eat it? ______________________________________________________________________ C. Kurt Svihla | | SVIHLA@EVAX.ENG.FSU | SPACE AVAILABLE | ____________________|_________________________________________________|
john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) (12/09/90)
C. Kurt Svihla (svihla@evax6.eng.fsu.edu) writes: +-- | Could the shrike have killed what appeared to be a much | larger bird? Do they scavenge? +-- Yes and yes. -- John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu ``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.'' --Dave Farber