eagle-hawk

British  

noun

1. Also called: wedge-tailed eagle.  a large aggressive Australian eagle, Aquila audax

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Example Sentences

Seeing Oogahnahbayah, a small eagle-hawk, flying over, they would say, 'He eats the emu eggs.'

From The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia by Parker, K. Langloh (Katie Langloh)

If Dr. Bleek's identification is correct, the Cagn of Qing is at once human and a sort of grasshopper, just as Pund-jel was half human, half eagle-hawk.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

In either case, we have here an example of the constant mythical dualism which gives the comparatively good being his perpetual antagonist—the Loki to his Odin, the crow to his eagle-hawk.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

Birds were nowhere numerous—an occasional eagle-hawk, or crow, and once or twice a little flock of long-tailed parrots whose species was unknown to any of us.

From Spinifex and Sand by Carnegie, David Wynford

But how does Bredbo come to be there? and old Caleb Coke handy too—like an eagle-hawk shepherding a dead lamb.

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf