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Every year, little black-and-white birds called pied flycatchers make the lengthy trek from sub-saharan Africa to northern Europe to feast on caterpillars, claim a nest, and have babies. This typically goes off without a hitch, and the birds return to Africa a few months later, offspring in tow. But recently, some flycatchers have arrived to find their nesting sites occupied by haughty, territorial great tits. And those birds don't just chase flycatchers away—they brutally attack them, kill them, and eat their brains.
Source: https://www.popsci.com/great-tits-murder-climate-change/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2020, @04:02AM
There was an ad featuring great tits right next to the shrike article I was reading
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3499740/The-tiny-vicious-killer-bird-world-Shrike-impales-victims-SPIKE.html [dailymail.co.uk]