duck-hawkn.
1. A common English name of the marsh harrier or moor-buzzard ( Circus æruginosus).
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > genus Circus (harrier) > circus aeruginosus (marsh harrier)
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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).
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > falco peregrinus (peregrine falcon)
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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).
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