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Habitat Requirements | |
| Description Status Range & Distribution Reproduction Habitat Threats Literature Cited Author: Neil Crouch |
The loggerhead shrike is associated with landscapes characterized by spaced, often spiny shrubs and low trees, usually interspersed with short grasses, forbs, and bare ground. These habitats provide suitable nest sites, hunting perches, and impaling stations and make available to the shrikes an unusually wide array of mostly ground-dwelling invertebrate and vertebrate prey species, ranging from tiny ants and spiders to birds and mammals larger than the shrike (Cade and Woods 1997). The shrike avoids closed forests and completely treeless and shrub-less areas and is also usually absent from higher elevations, although it occurs up to 3000m in Baja California, Mexico (Wilbur 1987). |