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Kestrel

noun

Small North American falcon. Synonyms: American kestrel, Falco sparverius, sparrow hawk.

Small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind. Synonym: Falco tinnunculus.

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"Kestrel" Quotes from Famous Books

... game:' so the birds fed safely, though a pot shot would not have seemed, the crime then that it would now. While I watched them suddenly the old bird 'quat,' and ran swiftly into the hedge, followed by the rest. A kestrel was hovering in the next meadow: when the beat of his wings ceased he slid forward and downwards, then rose and came over me in a bold curve. Well those little brown birds in the blackthorn knew that, fierce as he was, he dared not swoop even on a comparatively open bush, much less such thick ...

— The Amateur Poacher • Richard Jefferies

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... along like lame sheep behind the flock. Caracco, I would that I were a young King's officer with a troop of light horse on the ridge yonder! My faith, how I should sweep down yon cross road like a kestrel on a brood of young plover! Then heh for cut and thrust, down with the skulking cannoniers, a carbine fire to cover us, round with the horses, and away go the rebel guns in a cloud of dust! How's that, ...

— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle

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Words linked to "Kestrel" : Falco sparverius, genus Falco, Falco, sparrow hawk, American kestrel, falcon