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  1. A shrike is a `butcher-bird' of the family 
  2. Laniidae, of which there are over 70 species, 
  3. living mostly in Africa, but also in Eurasia 
  4. and North America. They often impale insects 
  5. and small vertebrates on thorns.  
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  7. Subject by: Shaun Jay
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