Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having slender shanks: specifically noting a hawk, Accipiter fuscus, one of the two commonest of the small hawks of North America.
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Examples
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Thus we lose the sharp-shinned hawk snag, ruler of all it surveys.
Gray jhetley 2009
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Spotted an immature sharp-shinned hawk perched in the snag-topped maple a couple of houses over.
Gray, with occasional redpolls jhetley 2009
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Golden eagles, ptarmigan, ravens, and sharp-shinned hawks inhabit the uplands.
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Maybe a sharp-shinned or Cooper's hawk will come by and snag the Free Lunch.
And again with the redpolls jhetley 2009
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Spotted a crow harassing some bird-shaped object in the sky, looked like a sharp-shinned hawk by the profile and relative size.
Morning concert jhetley 2008
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Just spotted a bird on the maple snag a few houses north of us, place where we sometimes see a sharp-shinned or Cooper's hawk surveying the world for a little snack.
Red sky at morning . . . jhetley 2008
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Maybe the sharp-shinned or Cooper's hawk passed through looking for breakfast.
Quieter jhetley 2008
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From time to time over the past few years of plover wardening at Plum Island I've blogged about seeing sharp-shinned hawks turn and fly directly out to sea during the spring and fall migrations.
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From time to time over the past few years of plover wardening at Plum Island I've blogged about seeing sharp-shinned hawks turn and fly directly out to sea during the spring and fall migrations.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Other birds of interest include pied-billed grebe, sharp-shinned hawk, northern sawhet owl, yellow-bellied sapsucker, Swainson's thrush, loggerhead shrike, marsh wren, golden crowned kinglet, red-breasted nuthatch, mourning warbler and dark-eyed junco.
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland 2007
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