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In my book, The Intersection, Seventeen Years of Birdprocessing on One Street Corner of the World, I write about the declining numbers of loggerhead shrikes (indeed the virtual decimation of them).
The shrike is a bird that looks a little like a mockingbird but is bigger and stronger. The bird impales insects, lizards, mice, and even other birds on the spines of cacti and bushes and commonly on barbed wire as well. This assures the bird a steady food supply.

En mi libro The Intersection, Seventeen Years of Birdprocessing on One Street Corner of the World, escribo sobre la disminución del número de alacudones americanos (de hecho casi la aniquilación de ellos).
El alacudón es un pájaro que se parece un poquito a un cenzontle pero más grande y fuerte. El ave empala insectos, lagartijas, ratones, e incluso otros pájaros en espinas de arbustos y cactus y muy a menudo en alambre de espino. Esto asegura que tendrá un suministro constante de alimentos.

First Loggerhead Recorded

 
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Tead chapter ten here in English and Spanish. TEN
https://www.tomhascallcole.com/It%20Seems%20Like%20Only%20Yesterday%20Bilingual.pdf

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ALL 242 LOGGERHEADS RECORDED SO FAR. IT'S JULY 211, 2024

1. Loggerhead Shrike    8/15/1971    Mesa Sewer Flats
2. Loggerhead Shrike    10/23/1971    Headlight Pond
3. Loggerhead Shrike    10/23/1971    Phoenix Sewer Flats
4. Loggerhead Shrike    10/24/1971    Mesa Sewer Flats
5. Loggerhead Shrike    1/22/1972    Headlight Pond
6. Loggerhead Shrike    1/22/1972    Mesa Sewer Flats
7. Loggerhead Shrike    3/5/1972    Mesa Sewer Flats
8. Loggerhead Shrike    6/21/1972    Parker Arizona
9. Loggerhead Shrike    1/3/1973    Mesa Sewer Flats
10. Loggerhead Shrike    5/27/1973    Southern Arizona Trip 1973
11. Loggerhead Shrike    11/16/1974    Organ Pipe National Monument     At organ pipe a big bull kangaroo rat jumped on us while we slept. Phainopeplas and loggerhead shrike.
12. Loggerhead Shrike    11/10/1984    Estero Morua
13. Loggerhead Shrike    7/4/1986    Estero Morua    Got this one out of the beach book. Perhaps there are more!
14. Loggerhead Shrike    11/26/1987    Estero Morua    The notes say "shrikes" plural.
15. Loggerhead Shrike    12/26/1996    Elliot and Cooper Roads
16. Loggerhead Shrike    1/7/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
17. Loggerhead Shrike    3/20/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
18. Loggerhead Shrike    4/9/1998    Arizona State University    Very tame. He ate a bug. Flew low low low. Alighted on a post. In front of the SRC.
19. Loggerhead Shrike    4/28/1998    Arizona State University
20. Loggerhead Shrike    5/9/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
21. Loggerhead Shrike    5/16/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
22. Loggerhead Shrike    5/18/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads    This bird was in that man-made eagle's nest.
23. Loggerhead Shrike    5/19/1998    Estero Morua    Quite a lot of these.
24. Loggerhead Shrike    6/6/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
25. Loggerhead Shrike    6/14/1998    Pima Canyon
26. Loggerhead Shrike    6/27/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
27. Loggerhead Shrike    7/3/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
28. Loggerhead Shrike    7/5/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
29. Loggerhead Shrike    7/25/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
30. Loggerhead Shrike    8/15/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
31. Loggerhead Shrike    9/5/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
32. Loggerhead Shrike    9/7/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
33. Loggerhead Shrike    10/3/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
34. Loggerhead Shrike    10/25/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
35. Loggerhead Shrike    11/1/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
36. Loggerhead Shrike    11/01/1998    Generic Place Anywhere    At the long pond with cattails
37. Loggerhead Shrike    11/11/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
38. Loggerhead Shrike    11/15/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
39. Loggerhead Shrike    12/5/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
40. Loggerhead Shrike    12/12/1998    Elliot and Cooper Roads
41. Loggerhead Shrike    1/1/1999    Estero Morua
42. Loggerhead Shrike    1/17/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
43. Loggerhead Shrike    2/27/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
44. Loggerhead Shrike    2/28/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
45. Loggerhead Shrike    04/11/1999    Generic Place Anywhere
46. Loggerhead Shrike    6/6/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
47. Loggerhead Shrike    6/13/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
48. Loggerhead Shrike    8/8/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
49. Loggerhead Shrike    8/22/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
50. Loggerhead Shrike    9/12/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
51. Loggerhead Shrike    10/2/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
52. Loggerhead Shrike    10/9/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
53. Loggerhead Shrike    11/27/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
54. Loggerhead Shrike    11/28/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
55. Loggerhead Shrike    12/11/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
56. Loggerhead Shrike    12/20/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
57. Loggerhead Shrike    12/31/1999    Elliot and Cooper Roads
58. Loggerhead Shrike    12/31/1999    McQueen and Elliot Roads
59. Loggerhead Shrike    01/01/2000    McQueen and Elliot Roads
60. Loggerhead Shrike    1/9/2000    Generic Place in Chandler    At the dump
61. Loggerhead Shrike    1/22/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
62. Loggerhead Shrike    1/28/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
63. Loggerhead Shrike    1/30/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
64. Loggerhead Shrike    2/5/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
65. Loggerhead Shrike    2/12/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
66. Loggerhead Shrike    2/14/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
67. Loggerhead Shrike    2/26/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
68. Loggerhead Shrike    3/12/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
69. Loggerhead Shrike    4/2/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
70. Loggerhead Shrike    04/02/2000    McQueen and Elliot Roads
71. Loggerhead Shrike    4/9/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
72. Loggerhead Shrike    4/15/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
73. Loggerhead Shrike    5/14/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
74. Loggerhead Shrike    5/29/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
75. Loggerhead Shrike    6/3/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
76. Loggerhead Shrike    6/4/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
77. Loggerhead Shrike    6/11/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
78. Loggerhead Shrike    06/24/2000    Generic Place Anywhere    At the dump.
79. Loggerhead Shrike    08/12/2000    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
80. Loggerhead Shrike    9/2/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
81. Loggerhead Shrike    9/24/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
82. Loggerhead Shrike    10/16/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
83. Loggerhead Shrike    10/21/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
84. Loggerhead Shrike    11/19/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
85. Loggerhead Shrike    11/24/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
86. Loggerhead Shrike    11/25/2000    McQueen and Elliot Roads
87. Loggerhead Shrike    12/3/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
88. Loggerhead Shrike    12/16/2000    Elliot and Cooper Roads
89. Loggerhead Shrike    12/16/2000    McQueen and Elliot Roads
90. Loggerhead Shrike    1/20/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
91. Loggerhead Shrike    03/24/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
92. Loggerhead Shrike    04/01/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
93. Loggerhead Shrike    04/07/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
94. Loggerhead Shrike    04/07/2001    McQueen and Elliot Roads
95. Loggerhead Shrike    04/08/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
96. Loggerhead Shrike    04/14/2001    Pima Canyon
97. Loggerhead Shrike    04/21/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
98. Loggerhead Shrike    06/30/2001    McQueen and Elliot Roads
99. Loggerhead Shrike    07/03/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
100. Loggerhead Shrike    07/29/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
101. Loggerhead Shrike    08/18/2001    McQueen and Elliot Roads
102. Loggerhead Shrike    09/08/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
103. Loggerhead Shrike    09/09/2001    Pima Canyon
104. Loggerhead Shrike    09/16/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
105. Loggerhead Shrike    09/22/2001    McQueen and Elliot Roads
106. Loggerhead Shrike    10/06/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
107. Loggerhead Shrike    10/06/2001    McQueen and Elliot Roads    Almost blue. White rump. Two-tone.
108. Loggerhead Shrike    10/13/2001    McQueen and Elliot Roads
109. Loggerhead Shrike    10/20/2001    McQueen and Elliot Roads
110. Loggerhead Shrike    10/21/2001    Elliot and Cooper Roads
111. Loggerhead Shrike    01/01/2002    McQueen and Elliot Roads
112. Loggerhead Shrike    01/02/2002    McQueen and Elliot Roads
113. Loggerhead Shrike    02/23/2002    Arizona City
114. Loggerhead Shrike    02/24/2002    Pima Canyon
115. Loggerhead Shrike    03/01/2002    Pima Canyon
116. Loggerhead Shrike    03/07/2002    McQueen and Elliot Roads
117. Loggerhead Shrike    03/17/2002    Elliot and Cooper Roads
118. Loggerhead Shrike    05/25/2002    Elliot and Cooper Roads
119. Loggerhead Shrike    06/15/2002    Elliot and Cooper Roads
120. Loggerhead Shrike    06/15/2002    McQueen and Elliot Roads
121. Loggerhead Shrike    06/25/2002    Estero Morua
122. Loggerhead Shrike    06/26/2002    Estero Morua
123. Loggerhead Shrike    6/29/2002    Pima Canyon
124. Loggerhead Shrike    10/12/2002    Elliot and Cooper Roads
125. Loggerhead Shrike    10/14/2002    Elliot and Cooper Roads
126. Loggerhead Shrike    10/27/2002    McQueen and Elliot Roads
127. Loggerhead Shrike    12/29/2002    Estero Morua
128. Loggerhead Shrike    02/08/2003    Elliot and Cooper Roads
129. Loggerhead Shrike    03/23/2003    Generic Place Anywhere    At the dump.
130. Loggerhead Shrike    07/27/2003    Elliot and Cooper Roads
131. Loggerhead Shrike    09/27/2003    Elliot and Cooper Roads
132. Loggerhead Shrike    10/03/2003    Elliot and Cooper Roads
133. Loggerhead Shrike    10/26/2003    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
134. Loggerhead Shrike    11/01/2003    Elliot and Cooper Roads
135. Loggerhead Shrike    11/01/2003    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
136. Loggerhead Shrike    11/08/2003    Estero Morua
137. Loggerhead Shrike    11/28/2003    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
138. Loggerhead Shrike    12/14/2003    Elliot and Cooper Roads    up on a telephone wire.
139. Loggerhead Shrike    12/29/2003    Generic Place in Chandler
140. Loggerhead Shrike    12/30/2003    Elliot and Cooper Roads
141. Loggerhead Shrike    01/10/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
142. Loggerhead Shrike    01/31/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
143. Loggerhead Shrike    02/07/2004    Pima Canyon
144. Loggerhead Shrike    02/14/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
145. Loggerhead Shrike    02/29/2004    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
146. Loggerhead Shrike    03/07/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
147. Loggerhead Shrike    03/27/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
148. Loggerhead Shrike    04/11/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
149. Loggerhead Shrike    04/25/2004    Pima Canyon
150. Loggerhead Shrike    05/01/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
151. Loggerhead Shrike    05/31/2004    Pima Canyon    He flew by looking like a black and white cigar.
152. Loggerhead Shrike    06/06/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
153. Loggerhead Shrike    06/13/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
154. Loggerhead Shrike    06/20/2004    Pima Canyon
155. Loggerhead Shrike    06/27/2004    Pima Canyon
156. Loggerhead Shrike    07/03/2004    Generic Place Anywhere    Price and McQueen pump and dump and mysterious pond area.
157. Loggerhead Shrike    07/16/2004    Usery Mountain Park
158. Loggerhead Shrike    07/30/2004    Pima Canyon
159. Loggerhead Shrike    08/22/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
160. Loggerhead Shrike    09/11/2004    Pima Canyon
161. Loggerhead Shrike    10/03/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
162. Loggerhead Shrike    10/09/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
163. Loggerhead Shrike    10/30/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
164. Loggerhead Shrike    11/13/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
165. Loggerhead Shrike    11/25/2004    Estero Morua
166. Loggerhead Shrike    12/11/2004    Pima Canyon    Excellent views of this old saddle shoe.
167. Loggerhead Shrike    12/12/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
168. Loggerhead Shrike    12/23/2004    Estero Morua
169. Loggerhead Shrike    12/27/2004    Elliot and Cooper Roads
170. Loggerhead Shrike    01/09/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
171. Loggerhead Shrike    01/22/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
172. Loggerhead Shrike    02/20/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
173. Loggerhead Shrike    02/27/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads    two of them
174. Loggerhead Shrike    03/05/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
175. Loggerhead Shrike    03/06/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
176. Loggerhead Shrike    03/16/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
177. Loggerhead Shrike    03/17/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
178. Loggerhead Shrike    03/20/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
179. Loggerhead Shrike    03/26/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
180. Loggerhead Shrike    03/27/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
181. Loggerhead Shrike    04/10/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
182. Loggerhead Shrike    04/13/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
183. Loggerhead Shrike    05/07/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
184. Loggerhead Shrike    06/19/2005    Pima Canyon
185. Loggerhead Shrike    06/26/2005    Pima Canyon
186. Loggerhead Shrike    08/27/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads
187. Loggerhead Shrike    09/17/2005    Pima Canyon
188. Loggerhead Shrike    10/15/2005    Pima Canyon
189. Loggerhead Shrike    11/06/2005    Pima Canyon
190. Loggerhead Shrike    12/10/2005    Elliot and Cooper Roads    In a tree.
191. Loggerhead Shrike    12/21/2005    Pima Canyon    Singing like a CB thrasher.
192. Loggerhead Shrike    12/26/2005    Generic Place in Chandler    Field Near the Pump near Mysterious Pond.
193. Loggerhead Shrike    01/15/2006    Elliot and Cooper Roads    First bird as I came up in my truck.
194. Loggerhead Shrike    01/27/2006    Superstitions
195. Loggerhead Shrike    02/24/2006    Elliot and Cooper Roads
196. Loggerhead Shrike    03/04/2006    Pima Canyon
197. Loggerhead Shrike    03/15/2006    Elliot and Cooper Roads    Seemed small.
198. Loggerhead Shrike    04/08/2006    Elliot and Cooper Roads
199. Loggerhead Shrike    04/16/2006    Elliot and Cooper Roads
200. Loggerhead Shrike    04/22/2006    Usery Mountain Park
201. Loggerhead Shrike    08/27/2006    McQueen and Elliot Roads
202. Loggerhead Shrike    12/25/2006    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
203. Loggerhead Shrike    08/08/2007    San Pedro River
204. Loggerhead Shrike    11/11/2007    Superstitions    This is the first local shrike I have seen in AGES. I think they're becoming extinct.
205. Loggerhead Shrike    01/12/2008    Pima Canyon    FIRST ONE SEEN FOR AGES AROUND TOWN.
206. Loggerhead Shrike    03/02/2008    Elliot and Cooper Roads    Ah! How long has it been since I have seen you here?
207. Loggerhead Shrike    03/10/2008    Elliot and Cooper Roads    BACK AGAIN.
208. Loggerhead Shrike    07/27/2008    Pima Canyon
209. Loggerhead Shrike    12/28/2008    Estero Morua
210. Loggerhead Shrike    01/17/2009    Estero Morua
211. Loggerhead Shrike    02/01/2009    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads    Kind of a stubby one. Hooked beak.
212. Loggerhead Shrike    05/30/2009    Pima Canyon    This shrike was on top of a saguaro as we walked back on the road. It was a little skinny but obviously a shrike. A mockingbird was on top of another saguaro.
213. Loggerhead Shrike    06/07/2009    Pima Canyon
214. Loggerhead Shrike    9/15/2009    Higley and Ocotillo Roads    There were actually two sightings of two different birds I think. They were pretty far apart. One seemed small but he had the most expressive face. A HUGE black eye. Almost like a puppy dog. What a view. What a bird!
215. Loggerhead Shrike    10/4/2009    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads    Yes. He was a hook-billed monster.
216. Loggerhead Shrike    10/14/2009    Generic Place Anywhere    Miracles.
217. Loggerhead Shrike    11/27/2009    Elliot and Cooper Roads
218. Loggerhead Shrike    11/28/2009    Elliot and Cooper Roads
219. Loggerhead Shrike    12/12/2009    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads    Oh boy! another. In a tree. I took his picture
220. Loggerhead Shrike    1/17/2010    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
221. Loggerhead Shrike    1/30/2010    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
222. Loggerhead Shrike    2/13/2010    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads    BIG BULL GOOSE SHRIKE. GOT HIM DEAD TO RIGHTS. BUTCHER BIRD.
223. Loggerhead Shrike    3/28/2010    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
224. Loggerhead Shrike    8/30/2010    Elliot and Cooper Roads    HAVEN'T SEEN ONE OF THESE IN HOW LONG?
225. Loggerhead Shrike    8/31/2010    Wild Horse Pass
226. Loggerhead Shrike    9/7/2010    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads    over where he had made desert sushi before after you pass through the blue herring gates and turn left behind the trail
227. Loggerhead Shrike    12/8/2010    Higley and Ocotillo Roads    GOT HIM! Well he flew off before I could take his picture. White rump?
228. Loggerhead Shrike    12/31/2010    McQueen and Elliot Roads    He was on the wire by that bible church across the street from the old field. I took a picture.
229. Loggerhead Shrike    1/6/2011    Elliot and Cooper Roads    way off in a tree all along. I think he was a shrike.
230. Loggerhead Shrike    2/7/2011    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads
231. Loggerhead Shrike    9/2/2011    Generic Place Anywhere    MYSTERIOUS POND in mesquite tree in the dusty old area east of mysterious pond
232. Loggerhead Shrike    10/10/2011    Estero Morua    I was there Mon-Wed 10-12. This bird may have been seen on any or all of those days.
233. Loggerhead Shrike    1/18/2012    Generic Place Anywhere    MYSTERIOUS POND  First of the year. Out west of the pond in the desert area. Flew up to a power line.
234. Loggerhead Shrike    9/14/2013    Generic Place Anywhere    Driving out of Mysterious Stock tank. I kept following the shrike with my truck.
235. Loggerhead Shrike    12/27/2013    Greenfield and Guadalupe Roads    Yes he alighted on the top of a tree. Not yet extinct apparently.
236. Loggerhead Shrike    6/21/2017    Estero Morua
237. Loggerhead Shrike    5/18/2019    Pima Canyon    there were two of these at least. Lots of sightings of these two.
238. Loggerhead Shrike    11/17/2019    Sun Lakes    At Rez Pond. On the telephone pole and flew to wires. I took pictures.
239. Loggerhead Shrike    2/16/2020    Geronimo Trail on South Mountain    Far off on top of a post. Another birdwatcher was doubtful I think at first and I lent him my binocs and he saw that that's what it was.
240. Loggerhead Shrike    5/11/2020    Generic Place Anywhere    Near Mysterious Pond and Mysterious Stock Tank
241. Loggerhead Shrike    10/10/2020    Sun Lakes    West Rez
242. Loggerhead Shrike    2/5/2023    Holbert Trail South Mountain    Haven't seen one for a long time.
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