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marsh harrier

NOUN
  1. Old World harrier frequenting marshy regions

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  • Female marsh harrier flying over a coastal reedbed. Country Diary: Waltham Brooks
  • And it's about the birds that are with us all year: robins and barn owls and sparrows and marsh harriers. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In Suffolk we have marsh harriers, birds that were once reduced to a single breeding pair in the entire country. Times, Sunday Times
  • And it's about the birds that are with us all year: robins and barn owls and sparrows and marsh harriers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here in Somerset we regularly see marsh harriers, and during the winter the occasional hen harrier drops in too. Birdwatch: Pallid harrier
  • I have seen kingfisher, barn owl, marsh harrier, and whooper swan at my place; my wife has seen little egret. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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