| The cuckoo, which resembles a sparrowhawk or a kestrel in flight, can be difficult to identify. |
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| It is closely related to the American sparrowhawk, which it resembles in size. |
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| The discovery of goshawk and sparrowhawk bones suggest that some vicars enjoyed the aristocratic sport of hawking in their spare time. |
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| Other breeding species include great crested and little grebes, lapwing, sparrowhawk, treecreeper, tawny owl and redpoll. |
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| Without trying, I also watched kestrels hovering and glimpsed the low dash of that thrilling ambush predator, the sparrowhawk. |
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| They then experimented by placing a mounted specimen of a sparrowhawk, cuckoo, dove, or duck, at the feeders for five minutes. |
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| A sparrowhawk was calmly finishing off a blackbird six feet from my head. |
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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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| Birds of prey like the owl, the sparrowhawk and the buzzard also live here. |
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| Plain as far as the eye can see, to fligh after red partridge with falcons, after quail with sparrowhawk or hare with goshawks. |
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| The area is a paradise for many bird species such as the vulture, buzzard, hawk, bearded vulture and sparrowhawk. |
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| The quick sparrowhawk uses the surprise attack as his hunting technique. |
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| When King John granted the town its charter during the 13th century, the rent was set as one sparrowhawk per year. |
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| The big thrushes chacked and churred as they flew up to the relative safety of nearby trees as a sparrowhawk scooted by scolded by the ever present red legged partridges. |
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| I saw an Eagle, most likely a Spotted Eagle, a buteo of some sort, and an accipiter, either a Eurasian Sparrowhawk or a Levant Sparrowhawk. |
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| A story of the fortress at Corycus, or the Castle Sparrowhawk, appears in Mandeville's Book. |
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| Pintail, Wigeon and Teal were numerous around Malltraeth Cob Pools and a male Sparrowhawk harassed the Common Snipe roosting amongst the tussocks at the water margins. |
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