Usually means: Small bird, distinctive red back.
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  1. red-backed shrike: Merriam-Webster
  2. red-backed shrike, red-backed shrike: Collins English Dictionary
  3. red-backed shrike: Wiktionary
  4. Red-backed Shrike, Red-backed shrike: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. red-backed shrike: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (red-backed shrike)

noun:  A medium-sized bird (Lanius collurio) of the shrike family that breeds in most of Europe and western Asia and winters in tropical Africa, eating large insects, small birds, voles, and lizards.

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