Male Lanius collurio from Nature Ornithological Park in the Imeretinskaya Lowland, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, holding the recently killed male Podarcis siculus.

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... 2 May 2023, at 1400 h, we observed an adult male Redbacked Shrike (Lanius collurio) holding a dead adult male P. siculus in its beak while perched in a tree ( Fig. 1) in the Nature Ornithological Park in the Imeretinskaya Lowland, Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, Russia (43.4141°N, 39.9351°E; WGS 84; 2 m elev.). The bird began to peck at its prey but flew away with the lizard in its beak when ...

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... 240 pp.). On 17 May 2023 at 0824 h a young S. magister was observed, not moving, on a garden wall in the residential area of Biosphere 2, near the town of Oracle, Pinal County, Arizona, USA (32.58024°N, 110.84876°W; WGS 84; 988 m elev.). Upon inspection I saw that the animal's head was seemingly stuck inside a broken acorn shell (Quercus sp.; Fig. 1) and was easily captured. The acorn shell was firmly attached to the lizard's head, obscuring its vision, but not blocking the ears or parietal eye, the keeled scales of the gular region appeared to be anchoring the acorn shell in place (Fig. 2). With some effort I was able to manually remove the shell and the lizard was released at ...