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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A slim-bodied hawk (Circus cyaneus) found in fields and marshy areas of the Northern Hemisphere, having an owllike face and a white patch above the tail.
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- noun common harrier of North America and Europe; nests in marshes and open land
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