birds-of-prey

But I considered it a privilege on a beautiful spring morning to walk through the still-sleeping zoo, past the birds-of-prey area—golden and bald eagles, condors and a snowy owl who examined us as if we had a screw loose.

Deep in a Dutchess Fen Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

While Whitehead did not entirely abandon filmmaking in the 1970s, making a Led Zepplin concert-pic in 1970, Daddy in 1972, and Fire in the Water in 1977, the passion of his past three and a half decades has largely been devoted to majestic birds-of-prey.

Letter to America 2007

While Whitehead did not entirely abandon filmmaking in the 1970s, making a Led Zepplin concert-pic in 1970, Daddy in 1972, and Fire in the Water in 1977, the passion of his past three and a half decades has largely been devoted to majestic birds-of-prey.

Letter to America 2007

Inventing a need for themselves is something of a tradition among mercenary birds-of-prey who somehow get us to stay still while they, all beak and talon, swoop down on our treasuries, our health, and our morality.

Glenn W. Smith: A Very Blackwater Thanksgiving: Profiteers Are Wrecking Our Health and Destroying Our Security 2008

Ultrasonic alarm calls might be beneficial because many of the birds-of-prey that catch and eat squirrels cannot hear them.

Boing Boing: July 25, 2004 - July 31, 2004 Archives 2004

The other cruisers and all four visible birds-of-prey were hit as a shot struck the Enterprise.

A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

Four birds-of-prey were at station between the six larger battle cruisers and fast-attack frigates, all of which remained respectfully—if barely—aft of the Federation flagship.

A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

Four birds-of-prey were at station between the six larger battle cruisers and fast-attack frigates, all of which remained respectfully—if barely—aft of the Federation flagship.

A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

The other cruisers and all four visible birds-of-prey were hit as a shot struck the Enterprise.

A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

Four birds-of-prey were at station between the six larger battle cruisers and fast-attack frigates, all of which remained respectfully—if barely—aft of the Federation flagship.

A Time to Kill David Mack 2004