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Bal-chatri
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Bal-chatri are traps designed to catch birds of prey. The trap essentially consists of a cage baited inside with a conspicuously visible live rodent or small bird, with a series of monofilament nooses
Bal-chatri made of split bamboo with a small bird as bait used for trapping shikras (India, 1897)
Bal-chatri made of split bamboo with a small bird as bait used for trapping shikras (India, 1897)
Shrike
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Shrikes are passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of 34 species in two genera.
Bal-chatri
…that attempts to take the bait. The name is derived from the Hindi word used by trappers in India. Modified bal-chatri traps are also used for catching shrikes. The bal-chatri originated in East India as a trap developed and used by falconers to catch suitable birds of prey to train for use in hunting. It…
Red backed shrike
Red backed shrike
A lizard impaled on a thorn by a shrike for later consumption.
A lizard impaled on a thorn by a shrike for later consumption.
A Sardinian warbler impaled by a shrike in Italy; shrikes sometimes use man-made spikes, such as barbed wire, in place of thorns.
A Sardinian warbler impaled by a shrike in Italy; shrikes sometimes use man-made spikes, such as barbed wire, in place of thorns.
Southern White crowned Shrike, Eurocephalus anguitimens, gleaning ants from the early morning soil at Marakele National Park, South Africa
Southern White crowned Shrike, Eurocephalus anguitimens, gleaning ants from the early morning soil at Marakele National Park, South Africa