accipiter

• “Response: This is an adult Brahminy kite, Haliastur indus, a medium-sized accipiter.”

  The Guardian: Mystery bird: Brahminy kite, Haliastur indus

• “UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There he goes, an accipiter (ph) flying right.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2008

• “Introivit hic quis accipiter, columba exit; introivit lupus, ovis egreditur, &c. 6777.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “More importantly however, the root isn't directly based on the attested words which show Greek ōkus, Latin accipiter 'hawk”

  Archive 2007-04-01

• “The Curved Bill Thrasher builds large twig nests in our chollas, have accipiter orange eyes, sings a beautiful song, and that bill from the Cretaceous makes it a favorite.”

  Matt's Ten Birds Part 3

• “Just about anyone--even children--with a reliable source of suitable food, could raise a small accipiter from a couple weeks of age and be essentially hunting with it in eight weeks.”

  Early Falconry

• “He reverted back into draconic form and launched himself high into the sky, gaining altitude, then descending on the hapless one-horn in the kind of deadly dive dragons and accipiter hawks had in common.”

  The Elvenbane

• “There was no hunting to speak of, except for Valyn's accipiter hawks, who were nasty-tempered enough to fling themselves into the thickest of underbrush after prey.”

  The Elvenbane

• “Caesar ab Italia uolantem remis adurgens, accipiter uelut mollis columbas aut leporem citus”

  Cleopatra

• “Báshik" from Persian "Báshah" (accipiter Nisus) a fierce little species of sparrow-hawk which I have described in”

  Arabian nights. English

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