Meaning of butcherbird | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of the magpie-like birds in the genus Cracticus, of Australia and New Guinea.
2. Any of the shrikes in the genus Lanius.
3. The fiscal shrike, Lanius collaris.
   South-Africa

Equivalents

Examples

“A butcher bird has stirred, tuned its flute with a few preparatory notes.”

“A short way off, two male butcher birds, black and white like magpies, were calling antiphonally across a ravine.”

CEFR level