How to Use peregrine falcon in a Sentence

peregrine falcon

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• Burrowing parrots are the prey of the peregrine falcon, the fastest bird on the planet.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 July 2022
• Behind the house, a cliff that’s home to peregrine falcons rises out of the forest.
  — Hugh Garvey, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2018
• The peregrine falcon was removed from the list in 1999 and is now listed as a species of least concern.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2021
• This program will include a trio of screech owls, a barn owl and a peregrine falcon.
  — Hartford Courant, 10 June 2022
• The world’s fastest hunter—the peregrine falcon—snatches prey out of the sky at speeds of more than 300 kilometers per hour.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
• About two dozen nesting peregrine falcon pairs are believed to be in the Bay Area.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2020
• There are deer and songbirds and peregrine falcons, gopher snakes and owls and frogs.
  — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 18 Mar. 2018
• Explore the trail and keep an eye out for the birds, including bald eagles and peregrine falcons, that live in the area.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2023
• The highlight came when a young peregrine falcon made a full stoop in excess of 100 mph on a flock of a half dozen pigeons.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
• Four peregrine falcon eggs in a box near the top of the otherwise vacant building are set to hatch.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• In her care was a kestrel, peregrine falcon, barn owl, bald and golden eagle.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 29 May 2018
• Deer, turkey, songbirds, peregrine falcons and even a bear have been spotted on the land.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2019
• The peregrine falcon lives in Manhattan at the greatest densities of any place in the world.
  — Kate Brown, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• Richmond: For the fourth year in a row, nature lovers will be able to watch a livestream of a peregrine falcon nest in downtown Richmond.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
• Ari Daniel Shapiro: …is Frightful, a frozen peregrine falcon.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2012
• Less known is the company’s struggle against a pair of peregrine falcons.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2020
• Because Planet Earth aired its first-ever episode about a city, on the return of peregrine falcons to this one.
  — The Editors, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Dec. 2017
• The shorebirds usually scatter and scream as the peregrine falcon nose dives at them.
  — Ciarra Luster, orlandosentinel.com, 6 June 2021
• And yet there is hope — a peregrine falcon has nested in the church — and humor as, somehow, life and nature prevail.
  — Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• Downtown's new peregrine falcon bros Both chicks are males.
  — Laura James-Reim, Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2018
• The one-and-a-half-pound quadrocopter, which has feet and legs modeled after a peregrine falcon, can catch and carry objects ten times its own weight.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
• She was stunned to see a peregrine falcon, its talons gripping the black railing of their west-facing terrace, staring at her.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 20 June 2022
• In late 2016, two peregrine falcons were spotted on the Berkeley campus, and in the following months a makeshift nest was found on top of a sandbag on the clock tower.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• Downtown Cincinnati first became a home for peregrine falcons in 1993, and the Mercantile Library put in the work to attract them.
  — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 28 June 2023
• In what wildlife rescuers called a rare pair of events, two young peregrine falcons plunged from their Bay Area nests this week — and both were reunited with their families.
  — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 8 June 2024
• Greg Septon, We Energies' peregrine falcon manager, thinks the female is the same one who has been nesting at the site since 2014.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2021
• These are poems of saplings, sorrel, peregrine falcons, fox, fireweed, rhubarb, sourdock, and ice.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• The rooftop of an Evanston Public Library branch is again home to peregrine falcon hatchlings born recently at the nesting site there.
  — Kyra Senese, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
• African-elephant noses, the team found, can inhale air at speeds of more than 335 miles per hour, faster than a Bugatti, faster than most bullet trains, faster than a dive-bombing peregrine falcon.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021
• What does the future hold for peregrine falcons, just a few years ago considered a great comeback success story?
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024