Description: The loggerhead shrike is 23 cm (9 in.) long. Head and back bluish gray, underparts white and very faintly barred (striped). Broad black mask extends above eye and thinly across top of the all-dark bill. Wings black with white patch; tail slim, black, with white outer tail feathers. Nesting season from March to June; clutch size 4 - 7 eggs; incubation
10 - 12 days; chicks fledge about 20 days after hatching. Loggerhead shrike is slightly smaller and darker in color than northern shrike (Lanius excubitor), which is a rare winter visitor in Southern Nevada.
Diet: Variety of foods depending on availability, from mice to birds and insects.
Habitat: Open country, washes, thinly wooded or shrubby lands, pastures, thickets, hedges, and barbed-wire fences along roads.
Range: Southern Canada to southern Mexico. Year-round resident in Clark County, Nevada.