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n. A species of eagle, ''Terathopius ecaudatus'', endemic to Africa and Arabia.
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The bateleur (Terathopius ecaudatus) is a medium-sized eagle in the family Accipitridae. Its closest relatives are the snake eagles. It is the only member of the genus Terathopius and may be the origin of the " Zimbabwe Bird", national emblem of Zimbabwe. It is endemic to Africa and small parts of Arabia. "Bateleur" is French for "Street Performer".
A bateleur is a medium-sized eagle.
Bateleur may also refer to:
- Bateleur Aquilla, ultralight trike aircraft
- Bateleur Sky Sports, a US aircraft distributor active in the late 1990s and early 2000s
- Bateleur Windlass, ultralight trike aircraft
- Denel Aerospace Systems Bateleur, an unmanned aerial vehicle
- RMT Bateleur, a German light-sport aircraft
- An improved version of the Valkiri, a multiple rocket launcher
Usage examples of "bateleur".
He went there in search of you in the course of following up on a tale you had told a certain Padre Bateleur on Samstead.
We engaged via space-minus in a most interesting exchange, part of which involved the counselor graciously allowing us to view the transcript of your conversation with Padre Bateleur, the same conversation that moved the counselor to go looking for you himself.
The substance of your dreams, Flinx, as related to Padre Bateleur only serve to strengthen our hypothesis.
I took no part in it, watching a bateleur, which I could now recognize by its distinctive cross-like shape against the blue sky.
Grey-headed kingfisher, pied hornbill, black-capped oriole, a flock of superb starlings which were just that, blue-collared, red breasted, green in the wings, and, best of all, a bateleur eagle, cruising beneath a perfectly unblemished blue sky, not soaring, just moving steadily forwards without, apparently, moving its wings.
Stephen, alas: a bateleur killed their mother, and I did not succeed in bringing them up.
He went there in search of you in the course of following up on a tale you had told a certain Padre Bateleur on Samstead.
We engaged via space-minus in a most interesting exchange, part of which involved the counselor graciously allowing us to view the transcript of your conversation with Padre Bateleur, the same conversation that moved the counselor to go looking for you himself.
The substance of your dreams, Flinx, as related to Padre Bateleur only serve to strengthen our hypothesis.
I took no part in it, watching a bateleur, which I could now recognize by its distinctive cross-like shape against the blue sky.