How To Use Harrier In A Sentence
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Larger species usually lay clutches of one to two eggs, where as smaller accipiters and harriers normally lay clutches of five to six eggs.
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The RSPB reports that, despite the upturns in the fortune of many birds of prey in recent years, the hen harrier remains a seriously threatened species.
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On a bright and breezy Sunday five Ilkley Harriers made the trip over to have a bash at the nine miles, 2,000 ft Half Tour of Pendle Fell Race.
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It is regarded by many as the most prestigious fell hound show there is, with classes for beagles, harriers, Jack Russell's and terriers.
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Overhead the Harriers and F-18s raced in to strafe the line of palm trees just inshore from the target beach.
BALANCE OF POWER
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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I had rooibos tea with marsh harrier.
Times, Sunday Times
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Puis maintenant je me permet de te charrier ça faisait longtemps tiens :
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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From the Atlantic coastline to the Pocomoke River and Forest, Worcester is home to pelicans and peewees, kingbirds and cuckoos, and herons, harriers, and eagles.
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The many juvenile harriers working the mound wore their orange winter plumage, a stark contrast to the hawk's black, white, and brown feathering.
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And it's about the birds that are with us all year: robins and barn owls and sparrows and marsh harriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Several previously declining bird species are now thriving, including the red kite, marsh harrier, osprey, honey buzzard and whooper swan.
Times, Sunday Times
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Walkers will be on the lookout for birds such as short-eared owls, winter wildfowl and the elusive hen harrier.
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His wife Helen, 26, runs with Bingley Harriers and has been inspired by him to run this year's London marathon in aid of the British Lung Foundation.
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
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A dispute between the former cricketer and the society plumbed new depths in a row over the mysterious disappearance of three rare hen harriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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No wonder that, when the RAF needed a name for their most aerobatic aircraft, they called it the Harrier jump jet.
Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
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In a platoon of hard-nosed execs, few have a snout quite as strong as Irish budget carrier Ryanair's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary: a harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying.
U.K. Faces Of The Week, May 15-19, 2006
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In the five years since we came here, I have recorded eight species of raptor flying over the garden, including hobby, peregrine, merlin, osprey and marsh harrier.
Birdwatch: Kestrel
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Larger species usually lay clutches of one to two eggs, where as smaller accipiters and harriers normally lay clutches of five to six eggs.
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A harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying.
Ryanair's O'Leary Offers England's Soccer Enemy A Bone
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This Sunday, Ilkley Harriers are staging their premier event - the Ilkley Moor Fell Race over 5.5 miles with 1,150 ft of climb.
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Birds of prey include kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), Montagu's harrier (Circus pygargus), and steppe eagle (Aquila rapax).
Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
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There's no difference between that and killing hen harriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Royal Navy has three carriers equipped with Harrier aircraft but its ageing assault ships have been decommissioned - Fearless only a fortnight ago.
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Here, against the lingering light of a winter afternoon, I have often watched, fascinated, as the darkly silhouetted harriers glide in just above the reeds.
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The story of the marsh harriers says quite clearly that such a thing can be done.
Times, Sunday Times
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A dispute between the former cricketer and the society plumbed new depths in a row over the mysterious disappearance of three rare hen harriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tens of thousands of hawks, kites, falcons, eagles, osprey, vultures, and harriers appear in the skies over the Golden Gate from August through December.
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The harrier is a jump jet, meaning it can hover, stop in mid-air, and even spin 360 degrees.
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(_Linota flavirostris_), hen harrier (_Circus cyaneus_), buzzard (_Buteo vulgaris_), redshank (_Totanus calidris_), greenshank (_Totanus cunescens_) and the little auk (_Mergulus alle_).
Hertfordshire
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Apart from the grouse and the woodcock which gives the hill its name, it's a very important habitat for the hen harrier, which is very rare.
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A typical farming village in this region attracts tree sparrows, black redstarts, gray partridge, skylarks, and hen harriers.
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Pete takes us inside the lives and minds of all thirty-four species of diurnal raptors found in North America - hawks, falcons, eagles, vultures, the osprey and the harrier.
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Mother Nature is bountiful: golden eagles wheel, harriers swoop, otters play.
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Toygan means 'falcon, hawk'; toynak 'hoof'; tirnak 'claw'; tirmiklamak 'to rake, harrow'; tay 'colt' - which trots us off to English hagdon, haggard, haglet, harrier, and hawk.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4
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So as they searched for animal tracks and waded up to their ankles in thick, black goo, I scanned the wide horizon for signs of the harrier.
Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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In particular I am very concerned about the risk posed by the illegal use of poison to birds such as red kites, buzzards and hen harriers.
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Female marsh harrier flying over a coastal reedbed.
Country Diary: Waltham Brooks
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Much like the Harrier Jump Jet, these vehicles have directable jets or fans that allow them to hover and give the pilot precise control, much as you would driving a car only using the third dimension of altitude as well.
Pocket-lint
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As well as carrion, harriers will eat the young of pukekos and ducks, and prey upon rodents found in fields.
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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The hare would be given a head start and lay a trail with shreds of paper, to be chased by the hounds or harriers.
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A good example of an aircraft with geometric anhedral is the Sea Harrier:
[flight dynamics] twist, dihedral and wingtips
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That is apparent, on the ground at least, from the number of young harriers fledged this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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A hare is be given a short head start to blaze a trail, marking his devious way with shreds of paper, soon to be pursued by a shouting pack of harriers.
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They found an unspoilt refuge for birdlife - including rare Marsh Harrier, avocet, ducks and geese - existing in the middle of what ten years ago was open water.
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Their victim was the hare, which they hunted on foot, assisted by the harrier - a small dog bred specifically for chasing hares.
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A female Marsh harrier was chasing a male painted snipe in flight.
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In the age 50 and above class, Harriers had two runners in the Ireland team.
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Of the others, one runner miscounted his circuits and ran one lap too few, and the other gave up after being lapped by all four Harriers competitors.
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The Harriers will be hosting the Greater Manchester Cross Country Championships on Saturday.
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Tornado, Jaguar and Harrier jets, of the Royal Air Force, scream overhead loosing off powerful projectiles which thud into the targets below.
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Is it not somewhat difficult now we no longer possess Harrier jump jets or aircraft carriers?
The Sun
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They are also building a lift engine RB193 with MAN of Germany, and then of course the Pegasus is the power plant for the Harrier Vertical Take-off Aircraft which, as you know, has been ordered not only by the Royal Air Force but also by the United States Marines, and it is thought that various other Air Forces within NATO will also need it.
Britain's Scientific and Industrial Achievements
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Is it too much to hope that soon we may even see pallid harrier nesting here in Britain?
Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
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The Harriers welcomes new members of all ages and abilities and caters for road, cross-country and track and field, as well as providing a full social programme.
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The Jaguar is dazzlingly silver-plated (speed of light) and the Harrier has tautologically painted feathers as if it was not already named, and shaped, after a bird.
Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life; Fiona Banner: Duveens Commission 2010
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Overhead the Harriers and F-18s raced in to strafe the line of palm trees just inshore from the target beach.
BALANCE OF POWER
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Scurrying about in the woodland fringes, hedges and feeding sites are finches, tits and thrushes keep your eyes open for the occasional hen harrier, merlin and sparrowhawk.
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The hen harriers look unlike to breed this year, but individuals are still around.
Times, Sunday Times
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Harriers' men's team were hit by injuries, with only one of the triumphant Southern team able to take part.
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Other birds include Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnopterus, Bonelli's eagle Hieraaetus fasciatus, booted eagle H. pennatus, marsh harrier Circus aeruginosus, lanner falcon Falco biarmicus, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus (threatened), collared pratincole Glareola pratincola and Moussier's redstart Phoenicurus moussieri.
Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
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It is just another step along the way that will lead to the extinction of hen harriers as a breeding bird in England.
Times, Sunday Times
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He loved to follow the local harriers and enjoyed the hunting scene immensely.
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Backley joined the Harriers as a six-year-old runner before turning to javelin two years later following a leg injury.
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In the lower tussock grasslands, native bird life is restricted to a few open country species such as New Zealand falcon Falco novaeseelandiae, Australasian harrier Circus sp. and New Zealand pipit Anthus sp.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
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With four first places within 13 days during May, she is the Harriers current Runner of the Month.
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Only members of the North Mayo Harriers will be permitted to ride with the club for the forthcoming season.
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Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
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The pack of harrier hounds - a smaller breed of dog than foxhounds, but larger than beagles - is kept at kennels near Gisburn.
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The flight of two Harriers outmaneuvered the Mirages and quickly downed two of the fighters with Sidewinder missiles.
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Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
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U.K. forces will have to wait until the Harrier's replacement arrives from the U.S. in the shape of the Joint Strike Fighter in 2020.
Cameron's Defense Cuts Reveal a U.K. Preparing to do Less With Less
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My drives still scream off to the right like wounded Harrier jets preparing to ditch.
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Four Sea Harriers lined up in a hover in front of the 100 or so personnel in the squadron at RNAS Yeovilton for an emotional decommissioning ceremony.
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The Vale of Lune Hunt has been hunting hares with its pack of harriers for 110 years and many of today's hounds are descended from the hunt's original pack.
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The flight of two Harriers outmaneuvered the Mirages and quickly downed two of the fighters with Sidewinder missiles.
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But the fourth British species, the pallid harrier, is so rare that only a score or so have ever turned up here, wanderers from their breeding grounds on the remote Russian steppes.
Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
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Scurrying about in the woodland fringes, hedges and feeding sites are finches, tits and thrushes keep your eyes open for the occasional hen harrier, merlin and sparrowhawk.
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Female marsh harrier flying over a coastal reedbed.
Country Diary: Waltham Brooks
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Other reedbed species - including marsh harriers, bearded tits, water rails and reed warblers - have also increased on the reserve since the improvements were carried out.
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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Hawks, harriers, falcons, eagles, and vultures are diurnal migrants.
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Before the Harrier jets shut down, our normal practice is to wash out the intakes and engine with demineralized water to remove any salt spray.
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Is it not somewhat difficult now we no longer possess Harrier jump jets or aircraft carriers?
The Sun
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I have seen kingfisher, barn owl, marsh harrier, and whooper swan at my place; my wife has seen little egret.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the Gateshead Harrier, who finished sixth when he last competed at the championships in 1993, said the early start will not bother him.
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The harrier is slender and sports a barred tail.
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He was selected as one of Britain's 80 torch-bearers in his role as a member of amateur cross-country club, South London Harriers.
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The intertarsal joint of the harrier-hawks Polyboroides spp. and the Crane hawk Geranospiza caerulescens.
Archive 2006-05-01
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At the start of the deployment, HMS Invincible will embark both FA2 Sea Harrier fighters and RAF Ground attack aircraft as well as her Sea King helicopters.
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The roll will include seven packs of beagles, one pack of minkhounds, two packs of harriers, two packs of fell foxhounds and 13 packs of foxhounds.
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The roll will include seven packs of beagles, one pack of minkhounds, two packs of harriers, two packs of fell foxhounds and 13 packs of foxhounds.
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That is apparent, on the ground at least, from the number of young harriers fledged this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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The planes replaced Harriers in the southern Afghan badlands last month.
The Sun
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Here in Somerset we regularly see marsh harriers, and during the winter the occasional hen harrier drops in too.
Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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The region is an Endemic Bird Area with, on the coast, jackass penguin Spheniscus demersens, blue crane Anthropoides paradiseus, Cape vulture Gyps coprotheres, black eagle Aquila verreauxii, martial eagle Polemaetus bellicosus, fish eagle Haliaeetus vocifer, black harrier Circus maurus, lanner falcon Falco biarmicus and lesser kestrel Falco naumanni.
Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa
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The hen harriers look unlike to breed this year, but individuals are still around.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tens of thousands of hawks, kites, falcons, eagles, osprey, vultures, and harriers appear in the skies over the Golden Gate from August through December.
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Other wintering species include little egret, spoonbill, hen harrier, merlin, peregrine, green sandpiper and common sandpiper.
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Additional observations on the intertarsal joint of the African harrier-hawk Polyboroides typus.
Archive 2006-05-01
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And it's about the birds that are with us all year: robins and barn owls and sparrows and marsh harriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Diversionary feeding involves leaving dead rats and other carrion on the moor for the harriers to eat.
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.
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Over 350 species of birds have been recorded in Worcester Country, including pelicans and pewees, kingbirds and cuckoos, herons, harriers, and eagles.
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.
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In Suffolk we have marsh harriers, birds that were once reduced to a single breeding pair in the entire country.
Times, Sunday Times
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The naturalists will be angry tomorrow, but it's hard to see anger doing any practical good for hen harriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other wintering species include little egret, spoonbill, hen harrier, merlin, peregrine, green sandpiper and common sandpiper.
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Here, Leeds were just pipped by three points by rivals Bingley Harriers.
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Hawks, harriers, falcons, eagles, and vultures are diurnal migrants.
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The pack of harrier hounds - a smaller breed of dog than foxhounds, but larger than beagles - is kept at kennels near Gisburn.
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Yet during my lifetime the pallid harrier has gone from being one of our rarest birds to a reasonably regular visitor, extending its breeding range westwards to Germany and Scandinavia.
Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
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There's no difference between that and killing hen harriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over 350 species of birds have been recorded in Worcester Country, including pelicans and pewees, kingbirds and cuckoos, herons, harriers, and eagles.
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After racing over the Middleton hills, the runners enjoyed Harriers ' hospitality back at Ilkley Lawn Tennis and Squash Club.
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I fear it could hasten the extinction of hen harriers in England.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a "cream crown" – a young or female marsh harrier with splashes of creamy white on its head and throat.
Country Diary: Waltham Brooks
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Our third breeding harrier, Montagu's, is found mainly in eastern England.
Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
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Woodstown Harriers hold their annual Hunter Trials in Portlaw on Sunday last in ideal conditions and it was a most enjoyable an successful day with the events run off very smoothly.
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Is it not somewhat difficult now we no longer possess Harrier jump jets or aircraft carriers?
The Sun
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Paul Walker added to the Harriers' middle-distance medal tally by grabbing the bronze in the 800 metres.
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The valleys are a refuge for rare wildlife including otters, hen harriers and peregrine falcons.
Times, Sunday Times
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A typical farming village in this region attracts tree sparrows, black redstarts, gray partridge, skylarks, and hen harriers.
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About 50 species were recorded there including long distance migrants like pallid harriers, ruff and reeves, white ibis, comb ducks, etc.
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Police even detained and interrogated members of the Hash House Harriers, a beery running club, suspicious that the flour they used to mark their runs might be part of a terrorist attack.
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A whitethroat flies out over the salt marsh from its grassed nesting bank on the most recent seawall, singing its dry ratchet song over the slippery green ooze; a redshank agitated by a marsh harrier towers inland over emerald wheat fields calling its bleak mud-flat alarm.
A Year on the Wing
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The hunt gathered for a final meet on Wednesday - the last time that the harriers would ever run with the pack before the ban came into force.
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Stanford's roster included a golden eagle, a northern harrier, and a California thrasher, plus a host of sparrows.
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There's the exciting prospect of hen harriers reclaiming ancient territories where the breed may not have lived for more than 200 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 2007, Mr. Skinner shouted at Black Rod "who shot the harriers?" in reference to the shooting of two protected harriers near a royal property.
Parliament Finally Sees Some Beauty
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This video game has over 60 authentically modeled aircraft ranging from harrier-type jets to military helicopters.
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Paul Walker added to the Harriers' middle-distance medal tally by grabbing the bronze in the 800 metres.
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Here, 600 acres of the former Naval Air Station plus 400 acres of bay are being cleaned up for endangered California least terns as well as northern harriers, great blue herons, and brown pelicans.
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I'm finding my Audiovox Harrier is a jim-dandy e-book reader all on its own.
Archive 2006-01-01
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Even better, we enjoyed long side-by-side views of the buteo next to a Northern Harrier, by far the most common raptor at Croton Point.
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We didn't see it, but we caught a glimpse of another one of our favorite raptors, the Northern Harrier.
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In the past gamekeepers declared war on creatures they called ‘vermin’ - stoats, weasels and birds of prey such as harriers and peregrines, which were thought to prey on grouse.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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The hen harrier is also the least migratory of the three species, more able to tolerate the cold.
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At the start of the second half some woeful defending let Bamber Bridge in under the sticks to stretch their lead even further and the game was slipping away from the Harriers.
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Other birds include Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnopterus, Bonelli's eagle Hieraaetus fasciatus, booted eagle H. pennatus, marsh harrier Circus aeruginosus, lanner falcon Falco biarmicus, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus (threatened), collared pratincole Glareola pratincola and Moussier's redstart Phoenicurus moussieri.
Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
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And it's about the birds that are with us all year: robins and barn owls and sparrows and marsh harriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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A hare is be given a short head start to blaze a trail, marking his devious way with shreds of paper, soon to be pursued by a shouting pack of harriers.
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As soon as the Harriers began to work over this hill of ruffs, they disappeared.
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Pete takes us inside the lives and minds of all thirty-four species of diurnal raptors found in North America - hawks, falcons, eagles, vultures, the osprey and the harrier.
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As we enjoyed watching hundreds of them flying in to a stubble field to rest and doze in the midday sun, my wife spotted a ring-tail hen harrier quartering a beet field yet to be harvested.
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The AV-8B Harrier 'jump jet' is an example of a modern plane with anhedral wings.
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The planes replaced Harriers in the southern Afghan badlands last month.
The Sun
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The 10k course, which passes through Croydon and Shirley, will be stewarded by members of Croydon Lions and Croydon Harriers.
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Can grouse and hen harriers co-exist?
Times, Sunday Times
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds estimates that around 100 birds of prey, including eagles, falcons and hen harriers, are either poisoned, shot, trapped or have their nests destroyed every year on the Scottish moors.
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Of the others, one runner miscounted his circuits and ran one lap too few, and the other gave up after being lapped by all four Harriers competitors.
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From the Atlantic coastline to the Pocomoke River and Forest, Worcester is home to pelicans and peewees, kingbirds and cuckoos, and herons, harriers, and eagles.
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As the days cooled and shortened, Jock and Fly climbed the great hill through the lowering mists into the sunlight where harrier hawks and eaglets soared and Cheviot sheep browsed in this brilliant air.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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The 16-strong fleet includes two simulators which are designed to give a choice of three rides, one in a helicopter, one in a Sea Harrier and another in a rigid raider.
