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Definition of Falco rusticolus
1. Noun. Large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falco Rusticolus
Literary usage of Falco rusticolus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"Arctic and subarctic parts of the Northern Hemisphere, south in winter to northern
part of temperate zone. a- falco rusticolus ..."
2. The Code of Nomenclature and Check-list of North American Birds Adopted by by American Ornithologists' Union (1886)
"HAB. Iceland, Southern Greenland, and Northeastern North America, straggling
southward in winter to Southern New England. 354 a. falco rusticolus ..."
3. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"287 (354) falco rusticolus. LYNN. Gray Gyrfalcon. Arctic America; accidental in
winter as far south as Maine. 288 (.554a) falco rusticolus ..."
4. The Labrador Coast: A Journal of Two Summer Cruises to that Region by Alpheus Spring Packard (1891)
"falco rusticolus Linn. Iceland Gyrfalcon. Winter specimens only obtained at Fort
Chimo. Not known to breed in the Ungava district. * f 94. ..."
5. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1904)
"THE GRAY GYRFALCON (falco rusticolus). Through the kindness of Mr. GF Dippie, of
the firm of ... THE BLACK GYRFALCON (falco rusticolus, var. obsoletus). ..."
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