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bird of prey

NOUN
  1. any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals

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  • SEATTLE (3-7): According to the Web site 10000birds. com, "seahawk" is actually a nickname for the osprey, a large, long-winged bird of prey. SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines
  • Secondly, a fox is not a recognised quarry for a 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
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