eyries
- plural of eyrie.
Example Sentences
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Last year Cade placed 16 peregrines�offspring of birds trapped in Canada and Alaska and mated in captivity�in artificial eyries in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Maryland.
From Time Magazine Archive
And while most of the California coast was sprouting pink motels, filling stations, and the cantilevered eyries of the rich, this stretch of Monterey County kept its rugged beauty.
From Time Magazine Archive
So that peregrine chicks will think of their new man-made eyries as natural homes, they must be placed while they are still flightless�and thus most vulnerable to predators.
From Time Magazine Archive
From their eyries in the towering rock bastions the brown eagles swooped down as though to rend us, uttering wild and menacing cries.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
The victorious eagles of the victorious legions had flown to their eyries forever.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
