noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
peregrine falcon
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
peregrine
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The manager was waiting for her at the desk, deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon .
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Construction activity would have to be curtailed during sensitive seasons. Peregrine falcon .
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It is understood there are up to 500 peregrine falcons in Northern Ireland.
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One of the most interesting cases that Maureen came across that I knew of was a peregrine falcon .
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The Yorkshire Dales national park authority is also to pay a bounty for every peregrine falcon that reaches maturity.
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Similarly, the number of peregrine falcons was more than halved between 1939 and 1963.
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In Islay in September 1938 they were flying a peregrine falcon at grouse with a bird called Cressida.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the marks in the sand, it had been felled by a falcon , which made a meal of its flesh.
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His falcon flew into a window of the empty castle and did not return.
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Not only is the bird's distribution highly individual, its ecology is more finely tuned than that of any other falcon .
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See p. 90 for distinctions of Accipitridae from falcons.
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The eagles are the masters of the air, lord over kite and falcon , proud of their rights.
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The king, trying to find the falcon , wandered in the castle.
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The manager was waiting for her at the desk, deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon .