bird of prey

NOUN
  1. any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals
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How To Use bird of prey In A Sentence

  • The moorland blaze has come at a bad time for ground-nesting birds such as golden plovers, curlews, lapwings and merlins, a rare bird of prey.
  • The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc.
  • The South African National Bird of Prey Centre takes in injured raptors - eagles, owls, sparrow hawks, for example - and nurses them back to health.
  • A white bird of prey hovers above what appears to be a mass exodus of fleeing animals.
  • The distressed bird of prey was hanging upside down after leather straps on its legs became wound round a branch. The Sun
  • He would have had to be a bird of prey, a handsome hawk, to pry a bankbook from their fingers. Lorelei
  • The moorland blaze has come at a bad time for ground-nesting birds such as golden plovers, curlews, lapwings and merlins, a rare bird of prey.
  • To spend your life with a wild bird of prey is an astonishing joy. Times, Sunday Times
  • It glittered beneath the light, twining over his broad shoulders to trail around my wrist like the ebony jesses of some exotic bird of prey. Brush of Darkness
  • The kestrel is the most fertile; for this is nearly the only bird of prey which drinks, and its moisture, both innate and acquired, along with its heat is favourable to generative products. On the Generation of Animals
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