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He shot a quick glance to Jake, who had the eyes of a hawk sizing up a rabbit.
In Scandinavia, hawk owls usually breed only during bursts in the population of voles and lemmings.
It has also been called grasshopper hawk, killy hawk, house hawk, rusty-crowned falcon, and windhover.
The second tale was also to do with predators, and the present obsession with preserving every hawk and buzzard on the wing.
A woman in a white flowing robe walks through an Egyptian temple as a hawk swoops over her shoulder.
There are still many native birds in the shrubland including bellbirds, kingfishers, silvereye and the hawk or kahu.
But hawk owls, perhaps descended from bird hunters, are skilled aerial predators in their own right.
The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel.
However, the hawk is larger and stockier, with clean white underwings and distinctive dark wrists and belly.
Look for the soaring rough-legged hawk and the hovering kestrel as each hunts for ground squirrels and other rodents.
Adrian also says the hawk is trailing leather straps which tied it to a perch.
Outpatients need to be watched like a hawk, because once you stop treatment, it can reoccur.
Greenspan, an old-school anti-inflation hawk of the traditional economy, is among the first to realize the potential in the modern, high-productivity new economy.
She was crouched, waiting, next to another Elf and a hawk lycanthrope as other Elves moved across bridges, in and out of trees, all hooded with their weapons concealed.
I can't help muttering under my breath, though, willing the hawk on.
When John F. Kennedy ran against Adlai Stevenson for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, he did so as a hawk.
But if neocons are merely one kind of hawk, then what distinguishes them from all the rest?
The release of white tailed eagle, Harris hawk and lanner falcon would be an offence under Section 14 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 unless licensed.
Both the horse and the hawk are unruly, the latter swirling its head around instead of waiting in obedient stillness, and the dogs have curiously rounded leonine heads.
Jacamars prefer to eat large, showy, flying insects such as blue morpho butterflies, hawk moths, and venomous insects such as wasps, ants, and sawflies.
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Neither the hawk nor the marten were present, and the chickaree was puzzled because he could see nothing else.
Like a bird that flees from a hawk, he has fallen into the hand of the fowler.
They doubtless received their name from the number of hawks which were seen there, aor signifying hawk in Portuguese.
With the Red-shoulder it is often called 'chicken hawk,' but does not deserve the name.
All I got to eat in the whole month was a small goat and a chicken hawk, and those I had to swallow wool, feathers and all.
And for all his garrulity, I know, Peter was really watching us with the eye of a hawk.
It was a signal meant for Denton, the third baseman, who was watching him like a hawk.
The name of chicken hawk is often applied to it, though it does not deserve the name, its diet being of a more humble kind.
A small Falcon, similar to the sharp-shinned hawk, but a much darker and stouter built bird.
And they cut him open and found under his heart a feather of the chicken hawk.
The hawk terrified out of its wits, flew off with a birr, leaving Poll to proceed homewards at pleasure.
The sparrow might as well dodge its own shadow as to dodge the sharp-shinned hawk.
A small Falcon, about 11 inches long, often confused with the sharp-shinned hawk, but much darker and a more stoutly built bird.
I have seen jays tease the sharp-shinned hawk in this way, and escape his retaliating blows by darting into a cedar-tree.
The sharp-shinned hawk rarely attacks full-grown poultry, but preys heavily on young chickens and song birds.
Evidently the swifts mistook the buzzard's shadow for that of the sharp-shinned hawk.
What journal do the persimmon and the buckeye keep, and the sharp-shinned hawk?
Cooper's hawk having a rounded tail with whitish tip, and the sharp-shinned hawk a square tail.
These included the peregrine falcon, sharp-shinned hawk, and Cooper's hawk.
The blinkered black pony came up like a hawk, with two of his own side behind him, and Benami's eye glittered as he raced.
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