Peregrines

Word PEREGRINES
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Definitions and meanings of "Peregrines"

What do we mean by peregrines?

The peregrine falcon.

A foreigner; a person resident in a country other than their own.

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The word "peregrines" in example sentences

I will take issue with the article's statement that the peregrines are a recent addition to our airspace, though. ❋ Jhetley (2008)

If you prefer a more rural setting and fancy a pleasant walk this weekend, the veteran peregrines are back at Malham Cove too. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Buzzards, peregrines and sparrowhawks had been poisoned and persecuted, ospreys were confined to the wilds of Scotland, and hobbies were one of our scarcest breeding birds. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We have to do as the eagles and osprey and peregrines are doing and go with the flow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, bald eagles are now common, ospreys and peregrines even more so. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Be warned that his may include scenes of violence; peregrines' diet includes other medium-sized birds which they swoop on in flight. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tests by the Scottish government also confirmed the poisoning of 13 buzzards, seven red kites, two peregrines and one white-tailed sea eagle in 2010. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The day has been damp and close, full of ripening blackberries and hogweed seeds; edgy as stinging nettles and the caterwauling of young peregrines over the quarry. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The birds of prey recently reintroduced to cities to help control pigeon and starling populations, peregrines dive through the sky after their prey at a heart-stopping two hundred miles an hour. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

In the United States, a fourteen-month investigation uncovered that thousands of peregrines and hawks in Oregon, Washington, and California were being killed by members of pigeon clubs who specialize in Birmingham rollers—a type of pigeon bred for a genetic anomaly that triggers a seizure midflight, sending the bird spiraling downward until it recovers before hitting the ground. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

Not so our hawk-eyed readers, one of whom suggested that having a red-tailed hawk on the cover of a book about peregrines was like featuring a dog on the cover of a book about cats. ❋ Unknown (2008)

BH: Actually, in NYC we have peregrines nesting on our buildings and bridges, red-tails in our parks, kestrels in 19th century cornices, and ospreys and northern harriers in Jamaica Bay. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Like, peregrines and bald eagles and eiders, oh my. ❋ Jhetley (2009)

A shot from the open house – a gyr taking advantage of an alternative perch, with a sakeret and a line of peregrines behind her. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among the company there was a draughtsman, and from a sketch of his, Clusius, a few years after, gave a figure of the bird, which he vaguely called “Gallinaceus Gallus peregrines,” but described rather fully. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This is like Gilbert White or Coleridge, but it is also like Ted Hughes or J. A. Baker, author of The Peregrine, the hallucinatory account of a winter watching or imagining—no one could or can tell—hunting peregrines along the coast of East Anglia. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)

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