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peregrine falcons

n. (peregrine falcon English)

Usage examples of "peregrine falcons".

Squadrons of goshawks, chicken hawks, and peregrine falcons followed them.

All peregrine falcons call the high-pitched creees, but when Frightful sees me in the morning or when I return from the forest, even when she is flying high above my head, she adds car-reet.

Bagabond contacted the pigeons, the cats and the dogs, and the rarer ones: the pair of peregrine falcons, the wolf who had escaped from his would-be owners, and the ocelot who spent her time prowling the parks for stray dogs.

His neighbors-two compact peregrine falcons-were awake and about to go hunting.

When the grand khan is desirous of having a brood of peregrine falcons, he sends to procure them at this place.

Keeping a few planes in the air to protect what was left of Wheeler Field struck him as a good idea, though he pitied the Army pilots in their Peregrine Falcons.

He closed his eyes for a moment and let his mind flylike one of the peregrine falcons lifting off from its bedroom window perch.

Falconers are single-handedly responsible for keeping the population of North American peregrine falcons alive.

The aide left, closing the door behind him, and Rhyme's eyes slipped to the window, where the peregrine falcons perched, lording over the city, their heads turning in that odd way of theirs-both jerky and elegant at the same time.

He told us how in America they were working with peregrine falcons by breeding them in captivity and releasing the young back into the wild.

So creatures at the top of food chains, like peregrine falcons, pelicans and seals, can get very large doses.

The three Elders, one woman and two men, all with silver-white hair, all wore green with gold embroidery - one with a motif of suntail hawks, one with cooperihawks, and the third with peregrine falcons.

If you wait quietly, you can spot deer, peregrine falcons, foxes, otters, even black bears and mountain lions.