hawk

• 'A man does not have to know birds to see that the hawk is a hunter, the pigeon his prey. —  David A
• Seizing the fish in its bill, with a scream of triumph, the hawk was about to return to the shore, when another actor appeared upon the scene. —  Oowikapun How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians
• If cuckoos are slaty coloured here and have breasts striped like a hawk, that is no reason why in the hot climates, where the sun burns your skin brown, they should not be brightly coloured in scarlet and green. —  Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas
• I fancy he has himself been 'chivvied' by the hawk, as the gypsies would say And there, sure enough, beneath one of the silver clouds that specked the dazzling blue a hawk--one of the kind which takes its prey in the open rather than in the thick woodlands--was wheeling up and up, and trying its best to get above a poor little lark in order to stoop at and devour it. —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
• Every one of these birds, for instance, might be called falco in Latin, hawk in English, some word being added to distinguish the genus, which should describe its principal aspect or habit. —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds

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