I've seen a magpie sitting on top of a mesh cover looking greedily down at the tortoise underneath.
Magpies will eat small mammals and young rabbits.
Magpies are very intelligent birds who cooperate in a group in the hunt for food. Where I live they are patrolling all the time and looking down into gardens from tv ariels on the rooftops.
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Testudo Hermanni Hermanni (Corse) tortoises
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