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Goshawk   /gˈɑshˌɔk/   Listen
Goshawk

noun
1.
Large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry.  Synonym: Accipiter gentilis.






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"Goshawk" Quotes from Famous Books



... is a kind of outcast among the birds. I think they regard him as a half reptile, who has not yet climbed high enough in the bird scale to deserve recognition; so they let him severely alone. Even the goshawk hesitates before taking a swoop at him, not knowing quite whether the gaudy creature is dangerous or only uncanny. I saw a great hawk once drop like a bolt upon a kingfisher that hung on quivering wings, rattling softly, before his hole in the bank. But the ...
— Secret of the Woods • William J. Long

... America from Alaska to California, breeding chiefly north of the United States except in some of the higher ranges of the Pacific coast. This sub-species is darker, both above and below, than the American Goshawk. Its nesting habits and eggs are precisely the same. The eggs are ...
— The Bird Book • Chester A. Reed

... four-footed marauder, not even the semi-amphibious mink himself, ever visited it. And the region was one too remote for the visits of the pot-hunter. In fact, there was only one foe against whom it behoved them to be on ceaseless guard. This was that bloodthirsty and tireless slayer, the goshawk, or great grey henhawk. Where that grim peril was concerned, the brown duck would take no risks. For the sake of those eggs among the willow stems, she held her life very dear, never flying more than a short circle ...
— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts



Words linked to "Goshawk" :   hawk, Accipiter gentilis, Accipiter, genus Accipiter



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