How To Use peregrine falcon In A Sentence
- They've both become superb birders, too, able to distinguish in a wing beat, for example, a gyrfalcon from a peregrine falcon during a brief aerial tussle.
- Peregrine falcons usually pluck the feathers and strip the flesh off their bird prey.
- Adam and his team of falconers use predatory birds like gyrfalcons, eagles, and peregrine falcons to clear the air.
- With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop.
- The peregrine falcon can swoop down on its prey at 200mph. Times, Sunday Times
- Its cliffs and valleys are habitat for peregrine falcons and endangered gyrfalcon, while its tidal flats and river mouths attract huge numbers of migrating birds and waterfowl.
- They include pine marten, wildcat, stoat and weasel as well as golden eagles, merlin, peregrine falcon, golden plover and in time black grouse and capercaillie.
- In flight, they can be distinguished from the Peregrine Falcon by their more rounded wingtips and dark axillaries and coverts, which make for distinctive field marks from below.
- The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
- A peregrine falcon soars above a clearing full of scarlet butterflies. Times, Sunday Times
