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Updated: May 20, 2025
In Germany he is called the nine-killer, from the belief that he kills and sticks upon thorns nine grasshoppers a day. To make my portrait of the shrike more complete, I will add another trait of his described by an acute observer who writes me from western New York.
"Jess wait till I tame him. Ef he'd been left along o' his folks, he'd grow up like 'em. He's a 'butcher bird' wot they call a 'nine-killer kills nine birds a day! Yes! True ez you live! Sticks 'em up on thorns outside his nest, jest like a butcher's shop, till he gets hungry. I've seen 'em!" "And how do you kalkilate to tame him?" asked Sam.
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