The Long-billed Curlew is the largest North American member of the sandpiper family. Its long bill is used for probing into dirt and mud for insects to eat. The females are larger than the males. Both partners will incubate the eggs in a nest made from a scrape on the ground. The female often leaves once the babies are hatched, leaving dad to protect the clutch.
The Loggerhead Shrike is a western subspecies of predatory songbird listed as threatened in Canada. It is a robin-sized passerine with a robust hooked bill, black face mask, white under parts, and black wings with a prominent white wing patch.
Loggerhead Shrikes hunt from perches in open country and prefer a combination of pasture or other grassland with scattered low trees and shrubs. They display an unusual habit of impaling their prey on twigs or thorns (mostly insects but occasionally small birds or mice). – text courtesy of http://www.leader.ca/visiting-leader/wildlife-sculptures/
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