How To Use Eyrie In A Sentence
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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.
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From his rockface eyrie he scoured the internet for advice on healing his ravaged fingertips.
Times, Sunday Times
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We defined a territory as any location to which one or more Peregrine Falcons were attached, irrespective of whether we found an eyrie.
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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.
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Climb the rest of the chimney more easily (but with interest) past the chockstones and into the Eeyrie to belay.
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I found an unobtrusive niche, a little cliff garden of thrift and sea campion which gave me a vee-shaped eyrie over the water.
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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
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A recent report of poisoned pigeons being found pegged out close to Peregrine eyries in Wales was almost certainly the work of pigeon fanciers.
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From his rockface eyrie he scoured the internet for advice on healing his ravaged fingertips.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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That impressive collection includes historical images from the 1930s and 1940s of many of the eyries formerly occupied by the eastern ‘duck hawks.’
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In the tiny chalets perched on the mountain ridges, folks literally dwell in cloudland, and enjoy a kind of supernal existence, having for near neighbours the eagles in their eyries and the fleet-footed chamois or izard.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
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In a mountain eyrie, proud, triumphant, lord of all it surveys.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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From the eyrie on the face of the rock Grief could see nothing for another hour, when the Rattler appeared, making for the passage.
THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
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In each case the eyrie was a flat platform of sticks about twice the size of a kite's nest.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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An eyrie has been observed as long established, from which a gentleman usually obtained his cast of hawks.
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It dens down in rocky cairns, under tree roots, sometimes even in the disused eyries of a golden eagle.
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The xaurian plunged - he almost slipped over its head - and pulled up abruptly on the narrow eyrie.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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Banding teams either rappelled or climbed to eyries that contained young.
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The Eagle cast an envious eye on the Russian supply centre near the village of Kalantut, some ten miles from his Paghman eyrie.
KARA KUSH
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The field glowed like rough gold in the approaching sunset, and near the middle of it stood a solitary great redwood, with blasted top suggesting a nesting eyrie for eagles.
CHAPTER XVII
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He could have flung himself at Mme. de Beauseant’s feet; he longed for the power of the devil if he could snatch her away and hide her in his heart, as an eagle snatches up some white yeanling from the plains and bears it to its eyrie.
Father Goriot
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ABOUT 20 years ago I went with a fellow falconer to view an eagle's eyrie in the Perthshire Highlands.
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His office was just along the corridor from where Wanless now sits in his ornately furnished chief executive's eyrie.
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The noise likewise eased down, and the others could hear Donald shouting from his eyrie to look down - stream.
AT THE RAINBOW'S END
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Mr Boffin having been several times in communication with this clerkly essence, both on its own ground and at the Bower, had no difficulty in identifying it when he saw it up in its dusty eyrie.
Our Mutual Friend
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Farther along the curve, in plain view from my eyrie, carved out of the living rock, were four colossal figures.
Chapter 12
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The sole survivor of three chicks hatched by a record-breaking pair of ospreys has taken its first tentative flight from its eyrie in Kielder Water and Forest Park in Northumberland.
Treetop CCTV captures the first flight of an osprey chick
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Over 100 eyries were known in Britain and at least 50 in Ireland in the middle of the 19th century.
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In the tiny chalets perched on the mountain ridges, folks literally dwell in cloudland, and enjoy a kind of supernal existence, having for near neighbours the eagles in their eyries and the fleet-footed chamois or izard.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
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In a state of profound agitation he arrived back at Elphaba's little eyrie atop the corn exchange.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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It's a balustraded eyrie in the triforium, the narrow gallery 60 feet above the ground.
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The farm was beside Lake Eyrie and rain, along with bitter winds, would sweep over the vineyard.
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Bald Eagles build large stick nests called eyries in tall trees or on cliffs.
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From his eyrie he waved his hand to Captain Lynch, and that doughty patriarch waved back.
THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
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In a mountain eyrie, proud, triumphant, lord of all it surveys.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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We realised the eyrie was burning and probably the eaglets in danger.
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The Eagle cast an envious eye on the Russian supply centre near the village of Kalantut, some ten miles from his Paghman eyrie.
KARA KUSH
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Z has posted pictures from his "eyrie", as he calls it.
How to make someone homesick
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The xaurian plunged - he almost slipped over its head - and pulled up abruptly on the narrow eyrie.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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Tummel -- for he used to build in the cliffs of Ben-Brackie, and if he has shifted his eyrie, a few minutes 'waftage will bear him to Cairn-Gower.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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In a state of profound agitation he arrived back at Elphaba's little eyrie atop the corn exchange.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Extraordinary measures were taken by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to safeguard the noble fish-hawks at their eyrie by Loch Garten after egg-thieves had brought the birds' first efforts to nought.
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The 1995 sample was strongly biased because few falcon eyries were checked, and an unusually large colony of 37 pairs of Red-breasted Geese occurred on an island with no raptors.
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He chooses for his home a cave or natural hole on the face of a high cliff; this is called the eyrie, and here he gathers together sticks, and odds and ends to make a kind of bedding for his young.
The Children's Book of London
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Similarly, the police have three hundred and sixty degree visibility over their patch, like eagles in an eyrie.
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An osprey chick hatched this year took its first flight this weekend from its pine tree eyrie in the Lake District, the organisations involved in watching over the birds announced yesterday.
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I interviewed the chairman of the company in his seventh-floor eyrie.
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Records were broken in 2009 when a pair of adult birds fledged three chicks from a clutch of three eggs hatched in the eyrie.
Treetop CCTV captures the first flight of an osprey chick
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Rooms come with handsome chimneypieces and exquisite shellwork, and there is a turret-top eyrie for ship-watching.
Times, Sunday Times
