{"id":210,"date":"2006-10-03T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-06-24T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T10:02:23","slug":"tiger-shrike-and-the-caged-white-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2006\/10\/03\/tiger-shrike-and-the-caged-white-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Shrike and the caged white-eye"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Tiger Shrikes (Lanius tigrinus<\/em>) are small, harmless-looking songbirds that are far from harmless. In fact they are aggressive predators, behaving like small raptors when hunting. No doubt about it, they are carnivorous and their diet includes large insects, small rodents, reptiles and mammals. They also eat small songbirds. Their upper mandible ends in a strong, hooked bill that they use with great efficiency to kill and dismember prey. <\/p>\n <\/a> <\/p>\n Chan Yoke Meng<\/strong> was recently witness to a juvenile Tiger Shrike trying to get at four white-eyes confined safely inside a cage. As the shrike landed on one side of the cage, the captive white-eyes panicked and fluttered to the other side. The shrike then flew to the other side, sending the white-eyes panicking to the opposite side. <\/p>\n