#grey shrike

[jakubrozalski]

Grey Reaper ( Lanius excubitor ) " My sweet summer child, what do you know about horror, about fear? Let me tell you a story about the Grey Reaper. The story of how I lost my only brother. It happened on the last day of October, long before you were born and I was still a young girl. My grandfather told me a story about an old beast, he called it the Grey Reaper. The beast appeared only during the autumn preceding the most harsh and long winters. Reaper hunted during the day, while everyone was working in the fields, members of our tribe disappeared without a trace. I always thought these stories were just fairy tales, until one day I saw him with my own eyes! Together with my brother and father we were gathering nuts for the winter in an old orchard. Suddenly everywhere fell eerily silent, in the forest and the field. Then, I heard a terrifying croak, the air whistled, the grass around me bent. I turned around and looked into the cold, black eyes of the beast. Those black empty eyes haunt me to this day. One moment later the beast flew away with my brother in its claws. Everything happened so fast, and at the same time as if time was frozen. My father grabbed his backpack and a spear and ran after the beast, straight to its lair, trying to save my brother! It was a place from the worst nightmares. The smell of blood and death was everywhere. To reach the place where the beast rested, one had to fight their way through a maze of thorny branches on which the Reaper impaled his victims. I tell you my child, many beasts roam these forests, many predators threaten us and hunt us for food... but the Reaper did it for fun! Father returned to us badly wounded, unfortunately it was too late for my brother. Father never spoke of what happened there and we never asked. No one has seen the Grey Reaper since. But I'm still afraid to go out into the fields and orchard in the fall, the beats still haunt me in nightmares, I'm still afraid he'll come back..."

I remember when many years ago, I first heard about the Great Grey Shrike and its habits, I couldn't believe it! Since then, this bird has always fascinated me and stimulated my imagination. Especially in the context of how terrifying its habits must have been for the creatures like gnomes. I always wanted to place this bird in the "Furry Demon" stories / universe, and I finally did! Nature is truly extraordinary. If you haven't heard of the Great Grey Shrike ( Dzierzba Srokosz ) before, I recommend checking it out, but it's not for the faint of heart :)) Cheers! work process: https://jrozalski.com/projects/AZQqZN

[shroudedmoon]

CASS!! She's got great grey shrike wings!! I was conflicted over what bird to give her for the longest time but i think this one works well enough

her wings are dyed mostly grey/black with a pop of yellow to keep in line with her costume :)

[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian nuthatch/nötväcka, Great grey shrike/varfågel and Great tit/talgoxe. Värmland, Sweden (February 23, 2017).

[snototter]

A lesser grey shrike (Lanius minor) in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa

by Bernard Dupont

[redflicker]

Ma’am offers Emmet an oran berry in this trying time.

Based off a scene in “When you reach the end of the line, you must be brave.” by Pinkrhin0 on ao3

[diningwiththeasquiths]

BAM! See this bird right here? This is a Great Grey Shrike. That's right, like the Minnesota Shrike from NBC's Hannibal. Impaling their prey and whatnot. Coincidentally they are one of my favourite birds, partly because their name in Dutch loosely translates to 'SMACK MAGPIE'.

This is a stuffed one in my local natural history museum. ❤

[ispida]

Boy look at my bird photos boy

Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)

Domestic Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus)

Iberian Grey Shrike (Lanius meridionalis)

:)

[yourpalminsk]

Metal Album Style Self-Portrait

I drew this exaggerated picture of myself in the style of a doom metal album cover. I am planning a music-related thing that may or may not become a reality and this picture would be used in it.

The birds featured in the picture are a great grey shrike (lanius excubitor), a bearded vulture (gypateus barbatus) and a pueo (asio flammeus sandwichensis). I consider them all very metal birds!

[whatnext10]

Loggerhead Shrikes are an Interesting Combination

Shrike A couple of weeks ago, I took a trip into town on my day off. I wanted it to be a fairly quick trip, so I almost decided against taking my camera, but I ran into an unusual situation that just reinforced my belief that I should take it with me where ever I go. I found this pretty little loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) perched in a tree not far from where I was parked when I came…

[wearingraincoats]

Thank you so much, guys! I'll have to check this out, I can't wait!

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Grey-bellied Shrike-Tyrant (Agriornis micropterus) © Hugo Hulsberg

It hatches from drab, great, large, limited, local, open, other, overall, plain, small, and stout eggs.

squawkoverflow - the ultimate bird collecting game          🥚 hatch    ❤️ collect     🤝 connect

[lihim-oa]

malevolent but birds

character bird key:

Arthur - collared dove

John - common starling

Butcher - loggerhead shrike

Noel - grey catbird

Kayne - giant petrel

[michaelnordeman]

Great grey shrike/varfågel, photographed way back in 2017. I never got the chance to take decent pictures of it, and I haven’t seen it around here since then. Värmland, Sweden (February 23, 2017). 

[goldenshrikecomic]

First of all, BIG FAN of how you draw deers. They look fantastic in your style! 🤩

Also I was wondering, does every individual in the world of Golden Shrike have unique antlers? 👀 I've noticed that all the characters you draw have a very distinct crown that doesn't appear to follow a specific design or pattern (like the ones that are characteristic of the different sub categories that exist irl).

I just really like that detail and the fact that, much like their coats, they're never quite the same from one deer to another. :3

Thanks! Each species do have spesific antler designs though.

Woodlanders:

Fielders:

Stonekrovn:

Marshlanders (older):

Marshlanders (younger):

And every other species not listed too, except for mixed deer who can have whatever patterns. The size and numbers of tines differ depending on the age, but you'd never have a fielder with five tines no matter how old they were. There's a thought process and designs I follow behind every rack, believe me.

Marshlanders are a bit different since when I started drawing the comic, I didn't give much thought into how the antlers would grow from those simple spikes into such complicated crowns. But in the end GS is fantasy and the antlers are already not realistic at all, so they can also sprout tines and twist in ways real deer's can't.

Each species has its own colors and patterns too... All marshlanders are beige to orange and have socks, all stonekrovns are tones of grey and brown, northerners are grey to white, all woodlanders are brown with white tails and dark stripe on it. But sure there's distinctions inbetween every character to make it not dull.

[shroudedmoon]

creaturessss this is actually a chibi doodle in a bigger page thats a wip but I wanted to post it anyways bc i haven't drawn duke or babs yet and thats a shame

bird species under cut!

Barbara - Eastern Screech Owl Cass - Great Grey Shrike Tim - Red Check Janssen Racing Homer Pigeon Duke - Evening Grosbeak