A peregrine falcon and a merlin swoop overhead, and the canyon soon curves to the left. |
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Similarly I can recall seeing blackcock, grouse, ring ousel and merlin on Exmoor until the mid sixties. |
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He heard the cry of a merlin and the beating of its wings as it flew over his head. |
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Other wintering species include little egret, spoonbill, hen harrier, merlin, peregrine, green sandpiper and common sandpiper. |
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Although the merlin was usually out of sight, the sanderlings never forgot that a predator was in the vicinity. |
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Maybe even merlin banding or who knows something to bring the exciting part of birding to the web. |
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Collision-risk estimates suggest a similar death toll for merlin, a species of falcon, and the loss of between 200 and 250 red-throated divers. |
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Talin, merlin, and philopodin are other major members of the FERM superfamily. |
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She went over to his flat with merlin, their dog, and she discovered the body. |
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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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Fish's organization provides charts to help bird-watchers predict the best viewing time for various raptor species, from the golden eagle to the merlin. |
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Birds seen on the moor include merlin, peregrine falcon, Eurasian curlew, European stonechat, dipper, Dartford warbler and ring ouzel. |
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Then a flurry of excitement as a flock of grey partridge flew by followed closely by a merlin. |
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Endangered lapwing, curlew, golden plover, ring ouzel, merlin, black grouse and grey partridge all fare far better on moorland with gamekeepers. |
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The South Pennines support internationally important numbers of European golden plover, curlew, merlin and twite. |
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Accipiters and the merlin in particular are major predators, though cats are likely to have a greater impact on house sparrow populations. |
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Other species such as merlin Falco columbarius and Eurasian skylark Alauda arvensis move further, to the coast or towards the south. |
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One merlin can dominate an entire flock of frightened birds, directing its fate as a whole. |
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A large and exceptionally aggressive female merlin may take prey as large as pigeons and occasionally even small ducks. |
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William Lewin illustrates the merlin as Plate 22 in volume 1 of his Birds of Great Britain and their Eggs, published 1789 in London. |
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The first modern taxonomist to describe the merlin was Carl Linnaeus, a Swede who reported his type specimen came from America. |
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Birds of prey include the merlin, hen harrier and the red kite, a national symbol of Welsh wildlife. |
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Rare birds include raven, peregrine, osprey, merlin and the red kite. |
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In recent decades merlin populations in North America have been significantly increasing, with some merlins becoming so well adapted to city life that they forgo migration. |
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Smaller birds will generally avoid a hunting merlin if possible. |
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The relationships of the merlin are not resolved to satisfaction. |
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Future tests are planned for the Merlin with RFA vessels, in particular auxiliary oilers and auxiliary oil and replenishment ships. |
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The young female kestrel may have paired off with a young male. We spotted them chasing off a Jack Merlin. |
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Across the water were four immature eagles soaring, swooping, and suffering the aggression of what we believe was a Merlin. |
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And that jet plane, by the way, was magicked in to the past by the very first Merlin. |
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Merlin checked the readings of a hand scanner that was strapped to his left arm and grunted. |
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The tiny knots of the branch dug into his neck as Merlin sought to find a purchase with his fingers, scrabbling against the oily branch. |
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Merlin almost effortlessly blocked her bolt barehanded, but stopping her second one took considerable effort. |
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The intercom beeped on a console near the galley and Merlin moved to thumb the control. |
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The girl, to be named Octavia, weighed 5lb 1oz, while her brother, Merlin, tipped the scales at 4lb 10 oz. |
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Tanis looked at Merlin without a word, but the expression on his face spoke a clear message. |
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Merlin capped his pen and set his journal on the office desk in front of him. |
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The Black Merlin is solid black on the head and back, and dark with a minimal amount of light streaking on the breast. |
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Merlin smiled inwardly at the cleverness and competence of his young student. |
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I stepped on the clutch hard and fast, thinking Merlin might drive right over me. |
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The other remaining pets are Zac, a black collie cross, Merlin the cat, Buttercup the rabbit and Albino ferrets Owen and Milly. |
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Merlin didn't think twice about her ability to pilot the ship and turned his attention to a navigational scanner. |
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Our fleet consisted of the H.M.S. Merlin and our 5 ships and 7 gunboats and four pitpans. |
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But managing the moors for the grouse also preserves them for the plovers and Merlin. |
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The aircraft was taking part in an eleven Spitfire fly-by when smoke issued from the Merlin powerplant. |
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Merlin stood at the forward end of the Recreation Deck in front of the large window. |
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The prince scowled and took on a dark expression that Merlin had not seen before on the cordial coyote. |
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The earliest literary sources have Merlin as a wonder child, born of an incubus, and a Welsh nun. |
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When the annexation of Belgium was decreed on 1 October 1795 the mover of the proposal, Merlin de Douai, also recommended the annexation of the entire left bank of the Rhine. |
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Then it was that Merlin perceived an open landaulet of deepest crimson, with handsome nickel trimmings, glide slowly up to the curb and come to a stop. |
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Like a magician waving his magic wand, McGrath took on the guise of Merlin as he wove his magic, enrapturing his team-mates, opponents and adoring masses. |
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In a separate incident yesterday, the pilot boat sent to take samples from the Hoy oil slick ended up going to the rescue of the local fishing vessel Merlin. |
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She moved into the kitchen and Merlin picked up a remote off the table. |
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It also means the curriculum is bang up-to-date, with Merlin crews who took part in the conflict in Iraq feeding their observations and experiences back to the squadron. |
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Merlin appears not only as a sorcerer and a wise man but also as a trickster. Constantly, he appears before Arthur in disguise, as a child, a beggar, an old peasant. |
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Merlin was the son of an incubus and a human, condemned to age backwards, so that he predicted the past, remembered the future and used his skills to preserve the time line. |
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This evidence is particularly strong in the parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni, in which Merlin is also the first described DNA transposon family. |
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In 2008, Dubai based company Merlin Digital launched a six-inch e-book reader to the local market. |
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Several decades later, the poet Robert de Boron retold this material in his poem Merlin. |
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At the end of the month, Merlin ordered the disbanding of the Police Legion, which had been infiltrated by the Babouvists. |
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In the first, Merlin creates Stonehenge as a burial place for Aurelius Ambrosius. |
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Geoffrey's account of Merlin Ambrosius' early life in the Historia Regum Britanniae is based on the story of Ambrosius in the Historia Brittonum. |
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In medieval folklore King Arthur's magician, the wizard Merlin, carried around a crystal ball for the same purpose. |
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Merlin is no longer a white-bearded sorceror and any quest for the Holy Grail is too trifling to mention. |
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They will each win a a Star Wars Merlin sticker album and the complete set of stickers. |
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Robert's poem was rewritten in prose in the 12th century as the Estoire de Merlin, also called the Vulgate or Prose Merlin. |
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Lucent and Novatel Wireless will continue to supply PTC Merlin U520 cards to support PTC's commercial UMTS network. |
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Merlin Sunscreening Systems announces its recent acquisition by the Reynaers Aluminium Group. |
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The MERLIN Viscometer is a rotational viscometer capable of both steady shear and yield stress testing in a compact footprint. |
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Among those supporting Levinson financially are renowned Apple blogger John Gruber, Pinboard developer Maciej Ceglowski and writer Merlin Mann. |
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In Robert's account, as in Geoffrey's Historia, Merlin is begotten by a demon on a virgin as an intended Antichrist. |
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He had already increased the power of the Merlin piston engine by improving its supercharger. |
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Then was brought to pass that which Merlin whilom said, that there should be sorrow untold at Arthur's forthfaring. |
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Another version has it that Merlin angers Arthur to the point where he beheads, cuts in half, burns, and curses Merlin. |
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Hence, according to legend, it is a sacred tree in which the soul of Merlin awaits his return. |
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Merlin relates that when the lovers died, they were placed in a magic tomb within a room in the chamber. |
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Niviane and Merlin rush back to Arthur's castle, but have to stop for the night in a stone chamber, once inhabited by two lovers. |
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However, along the way, Merlin receives a vision that Arthur is in need of assistance against the schemes of Morgan le Fay. |
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A main belt asteroid is named 2598 Merlin in honour of the legendary wizard. |
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If so, the hypothetical Merlin would have lived about a century after the hypothetical historical Arthur. |
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At this point Geoffrey abruptly pauses his narrative by inserting a series of prophecies attributed to Merlin. |
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This leads to war between Uther Pendragon and Gorlois of Cornwall, during which Uther clandestinely lies with Igerna through the magic of Merlin. |
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Merlin is supposed to have hidden the golden throne of Britain among the cliffs north of Crib y Ddysgl when the Saxons invaded. |
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Given the town's Welsh name Caerfyrddin, it has been suggested that Merlin may be an anglicised form of Myrddin. |
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Merlin hesitated a moment or two, and I was on pins and needles during that little while. |
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White's Arthurian series The Once and Future King, the young King Arthur is transformed into a badger by Merlin as part of his education. |
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Thanks to Marsha Enright, Merlin Jetton, Roderick Long, and David Riesbeck for helpful discussion. |
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Gemma Jones is The Cailleach of the spirit world, Colin Morgan is Merlin, Richard Wilson is Gaius and John Hurt the Voice of the Dragon. |
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Later authors have Merlin serve as the king's advisor until he is bewitched and imprisoned by the Lady of the Lake. |
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Merlin matures to an ascendant sagehood and engineers the birth of Arthur through magic and intrigue. |
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In Robert de Boron's Merlin, Arthur obtained the British throne by pulling a sword from a stone. |
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In 2007, the Tussauds Group merged with Merlin Entertainments, which is the current owner of Warwick Castle. |
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While Nennius' Ambrosius eventually reveals himself to be the son of a Roman consul, Geoffrey's Merlin is begotten on a king's daughter by an incubus. |
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Geoffrey dealt with Merlin again in his third work Vita Merlini. |
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During her stay, Merlin falls in love with her and desires her. |
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The demonic legacy invests Merlin with a preternatural knowledge of the past and present, which is supplemented by God, who gives the boy a prophetic knowledge of the future. |
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Adherents of the theory include archaeologist Marija Gimbutas and feminist scholar Merlin Stone, the author of the 1976 book When God Was a Woman. |
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It consists of a series of obscure prophetic utterances attributed to Merlin, which Geoffrey claimed to have translated from an unspecified language. |
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Liam, who is currently an Aircrewman trainee on the new Merlin Mk2 helicopter with Culdrose's 824 Naval Air Squadron, PS10 per mile, for his two chosen charities. |
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After Aurelius Ambrosius defeats and kills Vortigern, becoming king, Britain remains in a state of war under him and his brother Uther, assisted by the wizard Merlin. |
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The prophecies are interspersed with episodes relating Merlin's deeds and with various Arthurian adventures in which Merlin does not appear at all. |
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The Prose Merlin contains many instances of Merlin's shapeshifting. |
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Firstly because a Merlin datacomms system is designed with growth in mind. |
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Many more examples appear later in Bevis of Hampton, Arthur and Merlin, Guy of Warwick, The Seven Sages, all from 1330, in Ayenbit of Inwit and the Midland Prose Psalter. |
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Merlin consents, unaware that throughout the course of her lessons, Niviane will use Merlin's own powers against him, forcing him to do her bidding. |
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When Niviane finally goes back to her country, Merlin escorts her. |
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Niviane, frightened that Merlin might take advantage of her with his spells, swears that she will never love him unless he swears to teach her all of his magic. |
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The Merlin has for centuries been well regarded as a falconry bird. |
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Based on the Merlin 1C engine that boosted the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket to orbit in 2008, the Merlin Vacuum engine uses a regeneratively cooled combustion chamber. |
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