Birds of temperate woodlands of mostly dark brown and grey
People who live near woods where they reside see and hear them every day
Once seen and once heard you never again get them wrong
They do have a beautiful bubbling sort of song
With slight hook on the tip of their sharp pointed bill
They hang on spikes and on thorns small animals and birds to eat they do kill
One of the reasons they are known as grey butcherbirds by name
Most species of butcherbirds in some ways are the same
On fork of tree in untidy cup nest of twigs lined with grass the female bird lay
Three to five green pink dotted eggs and their territory they defend aggressively every day
In their breeding Season humans in their territory they will even attack
It can be said of them of courage they are not in lack
They are quite distinctive in appearance and song
And once seen and once heard you never again get them wrong.
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