This is called the shrike.
Cute, isn’t it?
Believe me, the shrike is the Jack the Ripper of the bird world. It kills its prey in the most spine-chilling and gruesome way possible.
They impale their prey on a sharp object like a thorn or a barbed wire. This makes it easier for them to devour their victims bit by bit.
They have also been observed to hunt relatively large vertebrates like mice and lizards.
On larger vertebrates, they induce paralysis by a bite to the neck and vigorously shake their immobilized victim so as to snap the vertebrae of the victim prior to impaling it on a thorn.
They don’t always impale their victims to eat them. It’s also used as a method of food storage. They can leave a mouse impaled for days before they come and make a snack out of it.
The shrike, also known as the butcherbird, is the ultimate embodiment of mercilessness.
Now imagine this: what if the shrike were the size of an ostrich and it could somehow fly.
There would be human kebabs everywhere