eagle-hawk

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

What matters the sand or the whitening chalk, The blighted herbage, the black'ning log, The crooked beak of the eagle-hawk, Or the hot red tongue of the native dog?

From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

Legends say that these bones are the remains of the victims of Mullyan, the eagle-hawk, whose camp was in the tree at the foot of which was the spring.

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

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

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)