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loggerhead
(redirected from loggerhead shrike)

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be at loggerheads
if two people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree strongly about something. They're constantly at loggerheads with the farmers' union. (often + with) The Senate and the House are still at loggerheads over the most crucial parts of the bill. (sometimes + over)

at loggerheads
strongly disagreeing. The two sides are still at loggerheads on how big the workers' pay increase will be.


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While hiking, canoeing, kayaking, or eating a picnic lunch, watch for Gulf Coast spiny softshell turtles, loggerhead shrikes, pileated woodpeckers, Seminole bats, and spotted salamanders.
``The major opposition items are protection of burrowing owl and loggerhead shrike habitat at two of the three entrances to the school, and many public safety issues caused by a lack of road improvements and infrastructure to protect students and members of Rancho Tierra del Sol,'' Kasper said.
When a loggerhead shrike catches a lizard, the bird often impales it on a thorn or a spur of barbed wire and then leaves the carcass hanging, explains evolutionary biologist Edmund D.
 
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