duck-hawkn.

Etymology: < duck n.¹ + hawk n.¹

1. A common English name of the marsh harrier or moor-buzzard ( Circus æruginosus).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Circus (harrier) > circus aeruginosus (marsh harrier)

pittelOE

dunkite1533

harp1671

moor-buzzard1678

duck-hawk1812

dun pickle1817

marsh harrier1831

harpy1838

moor harrier1840

moor hawk1885

1812 Pennant's Brit. Zool. (new ed.) I. ii. 146 (note) In some places it [sc. the moor buzzard] is called the duck hawk.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. i. 9 Another large bird, which a countryman would have pronounced to be one of the biggest duck-hawks that he had ever beheld.

2. U.S. Applied to the American variety of the peregrine falcon ( Falco peregrinus variant anatum).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > falco peregrinus (peregrine falcon)

falcona1250

peregrine falconc1395

peregrine1555

haggard1567

passenger1575

pilgrim1792

duck-hawk1884

1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story iv, in Harper's Mag. Mar. 621/2 Our duck or great-footed hawk is almost identical with the..peregrine falcon of Europe... It measures about forty-five inches in the stretch of its wings, and its prevailing color is of a dark blue.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	duck-hawk
释义	duck-hawkn. Etymology: < duck n.¹ + hawk n.¹ 1. A common English name of the marsh harrier or moor-buzzard ( Circus æruginosus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Circus (harrier) > circus aeruginosus (marsh harrier) pittelOE dunkite1533 harp1671 moor-buzzard1678 duck-hawk1812 dun pickle1817 marsh harrier1831 harpy1838 moor harrier1840 moor hawk1885 1812 Pennant's Brit. Zool. (new ed.) I. ii. 146 (note) In some places it [sc. the moor buzzard] is called the duck hawk. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. i. 9 Another large bird, which a countryman would have pronounced to be one of the biggest duck-hawks that he had ever beheld. 2. U.S. Applied to the American variety of the peregrine falcon ( Falco peregrinus variant anatum). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > falco peregrinus (peregrine falcon) falcona1250 peregrine falconc1395 peregrine1555 haggard1567 passenger1575 pilgrim1792 duck-hawk1884 1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story iv, in Harper's Mag. Mar. 621/2 Our duck or great-footed hawk is almost identical with the..peregrine falcon of Europe... It measures about forty-five inches in the stretch of its wings, and its prevailing color is of a dark blue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1812
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