How To Use Peregrine falcon In A Sentence
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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.
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Peregrine falcons usually pluck the feathers and strip the flesh off their bird prey.
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Adam and his team of falconers use predatory birds like gyrfalcons, eagles, and peregrine falcons to clear the air.
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With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop.
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The peregrine falcon can swoop down on its prey at 200mph.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
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A peregrine falcon soars above a clearing full of scarlet butterflies.
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Birds such as osprey Pandion haliaetus and peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus occur within the designated areas.
Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaíno, Mexico
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THOUSANDS of mobile phone users face two months of bad reception because of peregrine falcons nesting on masts.
The Sun
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The home to peregrine falcons, these riverside cliffs give a feel for what wilderness canoeing must be all about if you can ignore the hubbub from the river banks and the other canoeists and kayakers on the river.
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W The fastest creature in the world is the peregrine falcon.
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THOUSANDS of mobile phone users face two months of bad reception because of peregrine falcons nesting on masts.
The Sun
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The security stakeout at a secret location in the Derwent Valley in Derbyshire aims to stop egg collectors raiding nests and killing protected species such as peregrine falcons and goshawks.
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a cold steel, Laredo bowie, a flint knapping kit with a large novaculite biface and a trained peregrine falcon
If you were dropped out of a helicopter in the center of Alaska and could only bring three items besides clothing what would the
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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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Biologists live-captured dozens of owls, kestrels, hawks and peregrine falcons, which might have fed on poisoned rats, and temporarily held them in captivity.
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A rare peregrine falcon that was close to death after being battered by storms was rescued by a traffic warden.
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I've just seen a peregrine falcon.
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Similarly shaped raptors, such as peregrine falcons and goshawks, are adept at the agile pursuit and rapid capture of birds in flight.
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After owls, U.K. government figures identify kestrels, common buzzards, and peregrine falcons as other raptors most likely to end up as roadkill.
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Rare species encountered at the Reserve have included bald eagles, least terns, peregrine falcons, piping plovers, slender blue flag iris, and arethusa orchid.
Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine
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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.
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A peregrine falcon was idling on the breeze, wings outspread – unusual behaviour, he said.
Country Diary: The Somerset Levels
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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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Adam and his team of falconers use predatory birds like gyrfalcons, eagles, and peregrine falcons to clear the air.
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There has been an increase in value in peregrine falcons and increased demand in the Middle East.
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says thieves are threatening to wipe out the population of rare goshawks and peregrine falcons in the Peak District.
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I would miss the birds: a pair of furious peregrine falcons, a northern goshawk with a nest at the top of a deformed spruce leaning over the water, the three crow pals that worked the rockweed at low tide eviscerating sea urchins, then picked ripe berries on the hillside for dessert.
Bird Cloud
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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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Both come under attack from golden eagles and peregrine falcons.
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The gamekeeper, for a private shooting estate in the valley, faces 19 charges under the Wildlife Act, including 10 of killing rare peregrine falcons, goshawk and sparrowhawk.
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Plus peregrine falcons, foxes, badgers, deer, seagulls, otters, kittiwakes and ring-necked parakeets.
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The hurtling white grouse flushed here and there are the rock ptarmigan; the dark swift sharp-winged raptors are not peregrine falcons but one or more of the three species of marine predators called jaegers ” German for "hunters" ” which after nesting will return to the oceans of the earth to pass the remainder of the year pirating other birds.
Inside the Endangered Arctic Refuge
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Fall, of course, is the best time to see migrants: peregrine falcons, merlins, and flocks of tree swallows at Assateague; northern gannets just offshore; and plenty of Canadian and snow geese soaring above.
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Both come under attack from golden eagles and peregrine falcons.
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About 35 members of the club's Yorkshire region are taking part in the three-day event during which they will be flying raptors such as peregrine falcon, Harris hawk and goshawk.
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Mallards, ring-necked ducks, killdeer, marbled godwits, and peregrine falcons settle in for the fall.
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Towns and cities are now exporting surplus peregrine falcons, hedgehogs and foxes to the countryside rather than vice versa.
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The peregrine falcon can swoop down on its prey at 200mph.
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The valleys are a refuge for rare wildlife including otters, hen harriers and peregrine falcons.
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Towns and cities are now exporting surplus peregrine falcons, hedgehogs and foxes to the countryside rather than vice versa.
Times, Sunday Times
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With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop.
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Peregrine falcons taken from the wild in Scotland are strong birds which are highly prized.
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Peregrine falcons usually pluck the feathers and strip the flesh off their bird prey.
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Similarly shaped raptors, such as peregrine falcons and goshawks, are adept at the agile pursuit and rapid capture of birds in flight.
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You sometimes get peregrine falcons up here too, which is another thing that makes it special.
Times, Sunday Times
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We didn't catch that fish, or any fish, but we had a great day with kingfishers, peregrine falcons and buzzards for company.
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The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
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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.
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You won't need to be patient if you're looking for Peregrine Falcon chicks.
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Fall, of course, is the best time to see migrants: peregrine falcons, merlins, and flocks of tree swallows at Assateague; northern gannets just offshore; and plenty of Canadian and snow geese soaring above.
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The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
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Her eyes challenged me, potent, like a peregrine falcon's, but the beguiling scent of turps and linseed oil drew me to her canvas.
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Migration peaks end of April/first of May with tens of thousands of birds: red knots, least and western sandpipers, sanderlings, dunlins, short-billed dowitchers, black-bellied and semipalmated plovers, greater yellowlegs - all doing their best to avoid hunting Peregrine falcons and merlins.
The Seattle Times
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I've got this extremely realistic peregrine falcon and most birds are meant to be terrified of it.
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Over time, songbirds like the robin and other prized avians, including bald eagles and peregrine falcons, ingested enough contaminated prey that they died of DDT poisoning.
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Ranging from creamy pink to pale yellow, peregrine falcon and gyrfalcon eggs are slightly smaller than chicken's eggs, but many times more valuable.
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Both come under attack from golden eagles and peregrine falcons.
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Other species, such as little bustard (Otis tetrax), peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), and squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides) use it as breeding grounds.
Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
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Mallards, ring-necked ducks, killdeer, marbled godwits, and peregrine falcons settle in for the fall.
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Interesting marsh birds found in the reclaimed areas include egrets Egretta alba, E. garzetta and E. intermedia, purple heron Ardea purpurea (a rare vagrant from Africa) and green-backed heron Butorides striatus, while birds of prey include osprey Pandion haliaetus, Pallas's sea-eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus (R), white-bellied sea-eagle H. leucogaster, grey-headed fishing eagle Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, Oriential hobby F. severus, northern eagle owl Bubo bubo and brown fish owl Ketupa zeylonensis.
Sundarbans National Park, India
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Peregrine falcons usually pluck the feathers and strip the flesh off their bird prey.
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They don't use pesticides, so there are peregrine falcons.
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If you're lucky, you can sight one of the smaller numbers of red-shoulder hawks, red-tail hawks and the elusive, endangered Peregrine Falcon.
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Since 2011, the spire of the cathedral has been a nesting site for peregrine falcons and there was much excitement last month as four chicks were hatched.
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We hire a peregrine falcon to keep them off our pitch.
The Sun
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a cold steel, Laredo bowie, a flint knapping kit with a large novaculite biface and a trained peregrine falcon
If you were dropped out of a helicopter in the center of Alaska and could only bring three items besides clothing what would the
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When she escaped, before I was covered in bird muck, I swear I saw a peregrine falcon fly down and cut her bonds.
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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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Peregrine falcons usually pluck the feathers and strip the flesh off their bird prey.
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In his book On the Wing, Alan Tennant chronicles his efforts to track the migration of the peregrine falcon.
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With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop.
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The significant grassland birds are mainly raptors, such as the black and crowned eagles (Aquila verreauxii, Stephanoaetus coronatus) and the lanner and peregrine falcons (Falco biarmicus, F. peregrinus).
South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic
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Some of the oldest known falconids include a crested caracara and a peregrine falcon, both of which lived to 22 years old.
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Some of the most common birds of prey here, the bald eagle, peregrine falcon, and osprey, are fish-eaters, though the hawk owl is not.
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Stop along the coast in Assateague and view innumerable migratory species, including peregrine falcons, merlins, and enormous flocks of tree swallows continuing their flight south.
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We didn't catch that fish, or any fish, but we had a great day with kingfishers, peregrine falcons and buzzards for company.
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The peregrine falcon can fly all the way from the Alaska tundra to the prairies of central Argentina.
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They don't use pesticides, so there are peregrine falcons.
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With the coming spring warming the earth, peregrine falcons are now starting to lay their eggs on remote cliff tops around Scotland.
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I also have a feather from another species making a comeback against the odds, the peregrine falcon.
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After owls, U.K. government figures identify kestrels, common buzzards, and peregrine falcons as other raptors most likely to end up as roadkill.
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You sometimes get peregrine falcons up here too, which is another thing that makes it special.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the barn (one of only a handful that have not been developed in the locality) there are nesting pairs of barn owls, and sparrow hawks, while buzzards and peregrine falcons are regular visitors to the woods.
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Over 50 resident and 30 migrant species have been recorded and include one pair of breeding chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax and peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus.
Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast, United Kingdom
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We hire a peregrine falcon to keep them off our pitch.
The Sun
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There has been an increase in value in peregrine falcons and increased demand in the Middle East.
Times, Sunday Times
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A rare peregrine falcon that was close to death after being battered by storms was rescued by a traffic warden.
Times, Sunday Times
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A peregrine falcon and a merlin swoop overhead, and the canyon soon curves to the left.
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That supremely ugly structure of the hospital is home to a pair of peregrine falcons.
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