fish hawk
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How to use fish hawk in a sentence
Only the eagles' nests upon the fierce dizzy pinnacles in the Yosemite surpass the home of the fish-hawk in unawed boldness.
Roof and Meadow | Dallas Lore SharpAs they sat there Jack saw, not far off and up the Arm, a fish-hawk dropping through the air to seize a fish.
Jack the Young Canoeman | George Bird GrinnellThe fish-hawk seemed to avoid these attacks easily, but perhaps they made it nervous, and presently it dropped its prey.
Jack the Young Canoeman | George Bird GrinnellOn the very tip-top of this, proudly above all possibility of capture, a fish-hawk's nest is built.
Palmetto-Leaves | Harriet Beecher StoweThere swoops down a fish-hawk; and we see him bearing aloft a silvery fish, wriggling and twisting in his grasp.
Palmetto-Leaves | Harriet Beecher Stowe
British Dictionary definitions for fish hawk
another name for the osprey
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