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The scientific or taxonomic name would be Lanius ludovicianus.

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The scientific or taxonomic name would be Lanius ludovicianus.

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The scientific name for the Loggerhead shrike is Lanius ludovicianus. It belongs to the kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Laniidae, and genus Lanius.

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Lanius ludovicianus Loggerhead Shrike Is known as the butcher bird because it impales its prey on thorns or barbed wire fences and eats it like "a bug on a stick".

The Shrike has a hooked beak that is uses to tear meat off its kill and will even catch and eat small rodents. It has no talons to hold its prey which is why it has adopted this method of eating.

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You have the Brown Shrike in mainly in Asia that is the Lanius cristatus.

Then there is the closely related Red-backed Shrike, Lanius collrio, which breeds in most of Europe and Western Asia. It winters in tropical Africa. It frequently migrates in Great Britain.

And the Isabelline Shrike, Laniusisabellinus. It breeds in Siberia and central Asia, (known as the Turkestan Shrike, Lanius isabellinusphoenicuroides) and China (known as the Daurian Shrike, L. i. isabellinus), and winters in the tropics. It is rare in western Europe and Great Britain, usually in autumn.

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Inonotus ludovicianus was created in 1908.

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