Like a pint-sized raptor, the shrike hunts by watching from tree branches and soars down on prey. But unlike raptors, the northern shrike doesn’t have powerful wings and talons to make a kill.

I love rule breakers. You know, the critters in nature that don’t follow the rules we people lay out for them. A good example of this is the opossum. How crazy is it for a mammal to have ...