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 June 25, 2016  Sparky Stensaas

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    Being from Minnesota I don’t think of American Kestrels as being lizard-eaters, but this urban Kestrel in Brownsville, Texas made a meal of this Cuban Brown Anole. It took him a long time to kill and eat the lizard though. [Brownsville, Texas; January 2023] #americankestrel #preyofkestrel #raptoreatinglizard #lizardeatingraptor #sparkystensaas #brownsvilletexas
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    Next winters bird food? Or grocery store cooking oil? [Western Minnesota]

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