| Four characteristic birds of prey include the snowy owl, gyrfalcon, osprey, and rough-legged hawk. |
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| When we get there it doesn't look promising, but there are a few sops for me: a handful of curious seals, a gyrfalcon, and rafts of eider ducks. |
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| Bird species include peregrine and gyrfalcon, eagles, ruffed grouse, rock ptarmigan, loons, ducks and swans. |
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| Hawks, particularly the rough-legged hawk and gyrfalcon, wheel and soar through the air on the lookout for lemmings or young ptarmigan. |
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| Longwings are falcons, such as the peregrine, the saker, and the gyrfalcon. |
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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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| 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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| Golden eagle, gyrfalcon and rough-legged hawks were also observed during the survey. |
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| Some representative birds include red-throated loon, brant, oldsquaw, gyrfalcon, willow and rock ptarmigan, and snowy owl. |
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| This is the same virus strain found in a captive gyrfalcon in Whatcom County, Washington. |
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| In the Qing period, giving a gyrfalcon to the royal court in tribute could be met with a considerable reward. |
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| The Park is also a major breeding and nesting ground for a variety of migratory birds, and healthy populations of raptors such as peregrine falcon and gyrfalcon make their home on the walls of the river canyons. |
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| The wooden arrow has an iron tip and is winged with gyrfalcon feathers. |
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| This is home to wildlife found nowhere else in the US: polar bears, seals, bowhead whales and numerous fish, plus birds, such as the king eider and gyrfalcon. |
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| The gyrfalcon samples were collected after a falconer reported signs of illness in his birds. |
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| He is a hybrid white gyrsaker falcon, a breeding that combines the size of the Arctic gyrfalcon with the aggression of the saker. |
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| It is extremely rare to find gyrfalcon nesting in trees or on flat ground. |
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| The park area includes a wide range of habitats supporting such wildlife as caribou, muskox, wolf, Arctic hare, peregrine falcon, gyrfalcon, polar bear, beluga, and ringed and bearded seal. |
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| Another thinks nothing of bundling up warmly to hike the beaches of the Upper North shore, admiring the fauna that he happens to see: a gyrfalcon, gatherings of ducks and... on January 23, 15 beluga whales off Cape Bon-Désir. |
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| Park wildlife includes caribou, grizzly bear, wolverine, wolf, mink, moose, muskrat, gyrfalcon, peregrine falcon, golden eagle and rock and willow ptarmigan. |
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| The fauna of the region includes herbivores such as reindeer and musk ox as well as carnivores such as wolverine, polar fox, gyrfalcon, rough-legged buzzard and golden eagle. |
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| Large birds including ptarmigan and waterfowl are the most common prey item of the Gyrfalcon. |
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| The true falcons range in size from the tiny falconets and pygmy falcons to the Gyrfalcon. The falconets feed mainly on insects. |
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| The Gyrfalcon is the largest species of falcon in the world, and also the most expensive bird of prey, Paszek said. |
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| While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream. |
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