Butcher Blackbird

Once the prey is impaled, or sometimes even before impaling, the shrike employs a lethal biting technique. It targets the vertebrae of the prey’s neck. By wedging the neck into the notch of its beak and jerking its head sideways, the shrike severs the spinal cord, paralyzing the victim instantly. It is a surgical, almost execution-style kill.

In British and Appalachian folk belief, the Butcher Blackbird is an omen. Not of death outright, but of unwelcome truth .

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