goshawk

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Wire cutters were used to take the five-year-old male goshawk, which is grey on top and a cream speckled colour underneath, from a weathering, where it is kept for breeding purposes, between 9pm on Wednesday, March 4, and 7am on Thursday, March 5.

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  1. noun A large powerful hawk (Accipiter gentilis) having broad rounded wings, a long tail, and gray or brownish plumage.
  2. noun Any of several similar or related hawks.

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  • Poor old chap He has lost his she-goshawk, Jezebel,' Mary said, 'and can't afford another. —  THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
  • Development of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) and cross-amplification in other raptor species —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Most fascinating bird sighting to date was (according to my fiance ', much more up on his birds than I) a goshawk, sitting high up in a tree, eating some small critter (looked like a mouse or chipmunk). —  Grist - the Latest from Grist
  • Wire cutters were used to take the five-year-old male goshawk, which is grey on top and a cream speckled colour underneath, from a weathering, where it is kept for breeding purposes, between 9pm on Wednesday, March 4, and 7am on Thursday, March 5. —  HX News and Sport
  • Wide she opened her lattice window and, leaning out, she hearkened to the song of the gay goshawk Sing on, ye bonny bird,' she cried, 'sing on, for I know no song could be so sweet that came not from my own true love A little nearer flew the gay goshawk, and first his song was merry as a summer morn, and then it was sad as an autumn eve As she listened, tears dropped from the eyes of the beautiful lady. —  Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children
 

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  1. Middle English goshauk, from Old English gōshafoc : gōs, goose; see goose + hafoc, hawk; see hawk1.

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  1. With orig. long vowel o shortened before two consonants; from Middle English goshawk, goshauk, from Anglo-Saxon gōshafoc (= Old High German ganshapich, German gänsehabicht = Icelandic gāshaukr), i. e., ‘goose-hawk,’ so called from being flown at geese, from gōs, goose, + hafoc, hawk.
 

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