I couldn’t get the text to post with the photos, so:
HOLY SHIT, IT’S A ZOMBIE TIT!
The Great “Zombie” Tit — so nicknamed thanks to the bird’s proclivity for seeking out smaller birds and hibernating bats, crushing their heads and EATING THEIR BRAINS!
Lovebirds, those lovely cute little parrots do this too. Mostly they’ll stick to seeds and such, but once in a while one will get a taste for brains and you need to get rid of it or it’ll murder any bird that you put in its cage.
I couldn’t get the text to post with the photos, so:
HOLY SHIT, IT’S A ZOMBIE TIT!
The Great “Zombie” Tit — so nicknamed thanks to the bird’s proclivity for seeking out smaller birds and hibernating bats, crushing their heads and EATING THEIR BRAINS!
more info at:
earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/02/11/holy-sht-the-tit-zombie-is-one-vicious-bird/
Lovebirds, those lovely cute little parrots do this too. Mostly they’ll stick to seeds and such, but once in a while one will get a taste for brains and you need to get rid of it or it’ll murder any bird that you put in its cage.
Christ on a bike! This is real?!
And the shrike (the bird, not the space/time travelling automaton) impales creatures on thorns and barbed wire. Well, I guess the Shrike does as well.
video.nationalgeographic.com/video/weirdest-shrike