Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lanner falcon, especially a female of the species.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of falcon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) A long-tailed falcon (
Falco lanarius ), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon.
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- noun the
Lanner Falcon ,Falco biarmicus
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Cotgrave) -- and sometimes Lennard, an imitative form of "lanner," the name of an inferior hawk --
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Nancy has offered me a choice: of the dozen or so birds of prey she and her falconer husband keep on their rural New Hampshire property, I could work with Jazz or with Emma, the lanner falcon.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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The region is an Endemic Bird Area with, on the coast, jackass penguin Spheniscus demersens, blue crane Anthropoides paradiseus, Cape vulture Gyps coprotheres, black eagle Aquila verreauxii, martial eagle Polemaetus bellicosus, fish eagle Haliaeetus vocifer, black harrier Circus maurus, lanner falcon Falco biarmicus and lesser kestrel Falco naumanni.
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The regionally threatened Eurasian griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) and lanner falcon (Falco biarmicus) also occur.
Middle East steppe 2008
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The region was famed in the 1970s for its raptor population, with four vulture species, lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus, black Aegypius monachus, Griffon Gyps fulvus and Egyptian Neophron peranopterus; four eagle species, golden Aquila chrysaetos, short-toed Circaetus gallicus, booted Hieraeetus pennatus and Bonelli's Hieraeetus fasciatus and breeding lanner falcons Falco biarmicus.
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Other birds include Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnopterus, Bonelli's eagle Hieraaetus fasciatus, booted eagle H. pennatus, marsh harrier Circus aeruginosus, lanner falcon Falco biarmicus, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus (threatened), collared pratincole Glareola pratincola and Moussier's redstart Phoenicurus moussieri.
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The significant grassland birds are mainly raptors, such as the black and crowned eagles (Aquila verreauxii, Stephanoaetus coronatus) and the lanner and peregrine falcons (Falco biarmicus, F. peregrinus).
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Belloniere promised me a lanner, but he wrote to me not long ago that he was become pursy.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Belloniere promised me a lanner, but he wrote to me not long ago that he was become pursy.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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We have also the lanner and the lanneret, the tersel and the goshawk, the musket and the sparhawk, the jack and the hobby, and finally some
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
bilby commented on the word lanner
A.k.a. Feldegg's falcon.
May 23, 2010
bilby commented on the word lanner
As the Scottish falconer said as his prize bird was passed to him, "Ye canner hanner manner granner lanner."
May 23, 2010