How to use hen harrier in a sentence
The hen-harrier breeds only in the Orkneys and the Outer Hebrides.
Birds in Flight | W. P. PycraftShe at length found her way to the dead hen harrier, as it lay on a slab of flagstone.
The Pilots of Pomona | Robert LeightonThe one in question, Lucien said, was the “marsh-hawk,” sometimes also called the “hen-harrier.”
Popular Adventure Tales | Mayne ReidThe species that we shall allude to here is the hen harrier.
Among the Birds in Northern Shires | Charles DixonWhen out grouse shooting one day I saw a hen-harrier strike and kill a grouse just beyond gunshot.
Gairloch In North-West Ross-Shire | John H. Dixon, F.S.A. Scot
British Dictionary definitions for hen harrier
a common harrier, Circus cyaneus, that flies over fields and marshes and nests in marshes and open land: US and Canadian names: marsh hawk, marsh harrier
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