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Definition of Gyrfalcons
1. gyrfalcon [n] - See also: gyrfalcon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gyrfalcons
Literary usage of Gyrfalcons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"If he con get four white hawks he was to give four white gyrfalcons i of them.
... Knot in three hawks and three gyrfalcons, &c.'f We may conclude that the ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"On several occasions between March 15 and May 1 gyrfalcons were seen along the
bayous and sloughs, where they were doubtless hunting Willow Ptarmigan. ..."
3. Labrador, the Country and the People by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1909)
"The gyrfalcons have more pointed wings, and the whiteness of the plumage of the
white,or Iceland,species makes it very conspicuous among the dark crags ..."
4. Wild Bird Guests: How to Entertain Them by Ernest Harold Baynes (1915)
"... beautifully smaller when we take from it the gyrfalcons, which are northern
species which seldom enter this country; when we remember that the duck hawk ..."
5. Wild Bird Guests: How to Entertain Them by Ernest Harold Baynes (1915)
"And for the farmer in the United States this list grows beautifully smaller when
we take from it the gyrfalcons, which are northern species which seldom ..."
6. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"After the accession of John to the throne, the entries in the court-rolls of his
expenses show that he was in the habit of flying gyrfalcons at this bird on ..."
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