Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The American sparrow-hawk, Falco sparverius, which abounds on the prairies as elsewhere in North America, and has the habit of hovering on wing like the European kestrel or windhover.
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Examples
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With these animals the open country is populous, but they have their pursuers and destroyers; not the settlers of the region, for they do not shoot often except at a deer or a wild turkey, or a noxious animal; but the prairie-hawk, the bald-eagle, the mink, and the prairie-wolf, which make merciless havoc among them and their brood.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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I have seen the prairie-hawk balancing himself in the air for hours together, apparently over the same spot; probably watching his prey.
Poems William Cullen Bryant 1836
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