Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
osprey .
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Examples
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Europe, the wagtails not only chase the birds of prey which might be dangerous to them, but they chase also the fishing-hawk
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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The kites will also give chase to the swift fishing-hawk, and rob it of the fish it has captured; but no one ever saw the kites fighting together for the possession of the prey so stolen.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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As at San Francisco, there is an abundance of birds hovering constantly about the harbor of Nagasaki, not sea-gulls, but a brown fishing-hawk, which here seems to take the place of the gull, swooping down upon its finny prey after the same fashion, and uttering a wild, shrill cry when doing so.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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THE last of this race I shall mention is the falco piscatorius, or fishing-hawk: this is a large bird, of high and rapid flight; his wings are very long and pointed, and he spreads a vast sail, in proportion to the volume of his body.
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Exclusive of the true Osprey (F.lco Haliætus), which is rather a larger fishing-hawk than an eagle, there are two kinds, viz. -- the GOLDEN EAGLE (F. Chrysaëtos), and the WHITE-TAILED or
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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1 The herons (Ardea herodias), the fishing-hawk (Pandion haliaëtos carolinensis), and the blue-crested king fisher (Ceryle alcyon) are, as Clark states, not peculiar to the Pacific coast. —
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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