184 STORIES OF BIRD LIFE 



other kinds of food? Do you know of any other birds besides hawks and 

 owls that sometimes kill and eat small birds? On the whole do you regard 

 the shrike as a good bird or not ? Does the shrike rear its young where you 

 live? Is the shrike's sharp-hooked beak fitted for pecking in the bark of 

 trees like a woodpecker's? 



