peregrine

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This duck hawk (also known as a peregrine falcon) was sitting on top of my bird feeder today!

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  1. adjective Foreign; alien.
  2. adjective Roving or wandering; migratory.
  3. noun A peregrine falcon.

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  • The railings outside the bar made a great perch for a peregrine falcon which sometimes snacked on a pigeon outside the window -- not wholly appreciated by some of the customers, but seeing the falcon swoop down on Thea Foss from Altezzo was one of the highlights of my experience there. —  TNT Diner
  • This duck hawk (also known as a peregrine falcon) was sitting on top of my bird feeder today! —  ProLifeBlogs
  • A peregrine is obviously faster and smarter than a starling; you'd think he'd be able to catch them all day, with his eyes closed. —  Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • The Department offers two peregrine-take permits each year. —  Clovis News Journal : News
  • Such big birds would be impossible for a peregrine to take and they continued feeding while hundreds of feral pigeons which breed in the dam wall went berserk. —  This Is Guernsey
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin peregrīnus, wandering, pilgrim, from Latin, foreigner, from pereger, being abroad : per-, through; see per- + ager, land; see agro- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English peregrin, peregryn, foreign, from Old French peregrin (also pelegrin, pelerin, later ult. English pilgrim, q. v.), French pérégrine = Spanish Portuguese peregrino = Italian peregrino, pellegrino, foreign (Middle Latin peregrina falco, Old French faulcon peregrine, a peregrine falcon), from Latin peregrinus, foreign, as a noun a foreigner, stranger, from pereger, being abroad or in foreign parts, literally passing through a land, from per, through, + ager, field, land: see per and acre.
 

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/ˈpɛrəgrɪn/
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