eaglehawk

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eagle +‎ hawk

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eaglehawk (plural eaglehawks)

  1. (Australia) Any large bird of prey, especially the wedge-tailed eagle, Aquila audax.
    • 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 128:
      As they turn a wedge-tail and black body shows. They are eaglehawks.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 412:
      We needed to hear the birds chirping, the eaglehawk crying out something from the thermals high above, but the eery silence lingered on.

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