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UK
/ˈiəɹi/
]
[ US /ˈɛɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈɛɹi/ ]
NOUN
- the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
- any habitation at a high altitude
How To Use eyrie In A Sentence
- The assumptions that our estimates of the proportion of eyries associated with geese and the proportion of geese that nested with falcons are unbiased can be confirmed only by data collected from other areas.
- From his rockface eyrie he scoured the internet for advice on healing his ravaged fingertips. Times, Sunday Times
- We defined a territory as any location to which one or more Peregrine Falcons were attached, irrespective of whether we found an eyrie.
- From 1960 to 1962, Kretschmar and Leonovich found that 19 of 23 Peregrine Falcon eyries in the Pyasina basin were associated with Red-breasted Geese, as were 11 of 12 eyries on the Pura River in 1996.
- Climb the rest of the chimney more easily (but with interest) past the chockstones and into the Eeyrie to belay.
- I found an unobtrusive niche, a little cliff garden of thrift and sea campion which gave me a vee-shaped eyrie over the water.
- The roar of the sea had long announced their approach to the cliffs, on the summit of which, like the nest of some sea-eagle, the founder of the fortalice had perched his eyrie. The Bride of Lammermoor
- A recent report of poisoned pigeons being found pegged out close to Peregrine eyries in Wales was almost certainly the work of pigeon fanciers.
- From his rockface eyrie he scoured the internet for advice on healing his ravaged fingertips. Times, Sunday Times
- Whatever they lost in the cessation of uncomfortable communion at the eyrie, or lair, of the Dragon was more than made up for by the sub-rosaceous, or semi-clandestine, character of the intercourse that was left. Somehow Good