gyrfalcon
gerfalcon
Falco rusticolus latin

Gyrfalcons that make it to adulthood can live up to 20 years of age.

As a result, many Gyrfalcons taken from the wild quickly die of disease.

The other sea-cave, where she had seen the white gyrfalcon, was not far off.

This bird has been identified with either a gyrfalcon or a hawk.

She was not a gyrfalcon but her own self.

You don't have to be a ticker to want to see a gyrfalcon.

The afternoon sun was now slanting in through the windows on the left side of the Gyrfalcon.

In the medieval era, the Gyrfalcon was considered a royal bird.

He poised his body and released it like a gyrfalcon from the gauntlet.

We used gyrfalcons in the north, of course. "

Gyrfalcon laughed aloud at that; he has a good, booming laugh.

Why, only yesterday I saw a gyrfalcon devour a flying mouse!

Gyrfalcon carried a glass alcohol tank and a pair of water tanks.

"Many a day found him hunting with his gyrfalcon.

Fairly variable, and can be almost as pale as a Gyrfalcon.

He owned a gyrfalcon named Thunderclap who never missed her strike.

They threatened me, or at least Gyrfalcon did.

She was showing them a large gyrfalcon, claiming it was hers.

By the time he'd finished running the errands she assigned, he was due back aboard Gyrfalcon for his watch.

Gyrfalcon and Blazingstar were both too busy to see me.

With gyrfalcons in areas away from their natural Arctic tundra habitat, better disease resistance.

I don't make anything when Gyrfalcon sells his slug guns either, or not directly.

The gyrfalcon has been on the alert for eastern Massachusetts off and on all winter.

A pair of white gyrfalcons soared above him.

The "treasure" was a gyrfalcon of startling white plumage with black tips.

I had but one gerfalcon, and he died day before yesterday."

No dove, certainly, more a young gerfalcon, and a wild one at that.

He had taken with him for his amusement a favorite gerfalcon of the queen.

"A gerfalcon had pursued his prey into the hall."

"The morning that the gerfalcon came into the tower.

"Or shall I show you, sire, how a peregrine may win where a gerfalcon fails?"

It was the queen's gerfalcon, and he came in pursuit of it."

Smaller than the royal gerfalcon, the Bishop's bird was none the less a swift and beautiful creature.

I stand alone on the Gerfalcon Tower, looking south over moonlit fields, and wonder how you fare.

Whistle off the gerfalcon!"

Gerfalcon, a fantasy novel by Leslie Barringer.

'The young Emperor was stretched on a couch of dyed lion skins, and a gerfalcon perched upon his wrist.

Gerfalcon (Heinemann 1927, 310 p)

Gerfalcon, Leslie Barringer (March 1976)

Gerfalcon is a fantasy novel by Leslie Barringer, the first book in his three volume Neustrian Cycle.

The King's gerfalcon having struck down a rook, and finding the sport but tame, bethought herself suddenly of that noble heron, which she still perceived fluttering over Crooksbury Heath.

A wide variety of rare and threatened wetland birds also nest inside the national park, among them include the gerfalcon, golden eagle, red-throated loon, arctic loon, and long-tailed duck.

And these same youthful lords had but that hour returned from the chase so that they stood yet in the courtyard, each bearing upon his wrist his gerfalcon, hooded and jessed.

'See the mon wi' a face like a gerfalcon,' cried one, pointing to Saxon; "tis he that slew the Philistine officer yestreen, an' brought the faithful off victorious.'

'Iceland, says Sir Joseph Banks, is blessed not only with birds so remarkable as the gerfalcon, the harlequin duck and both phalaropes, but also with sensible volcanic phenomena at virtually all seasons.'

Every fiber of her, from her crest to her deck feathers, quivered with jealousy and rage at the sight of this creature, a mere peregrine, who had dared to come between a royal gerfalcon and her quarry.

Barringer's main body of work, the Neustrian Cycle, is a trilogy beginning with Gerfalcon; these novels were set around the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom).

In the same fashion the labourer would forsake his pick with which he strives to earn a livelihood, and the falcon would flee from the duck, and the gerfalcon from the heron, and the pike from the minnow, and the stag would chase the lion, and everything would be reversed.

The action of the story, beginning before the action of Gerfalcon, includes and overpasses the time of the latter; neither tale is needed for the enjoyment of the other, but many readers will welcome a new encounter with Raoul of Ger and his friends in the days of their prosperity."

Usually, when not in the company of King Henry, he just wore working leathers and about three sticking plasters, but what he was wearing now had been designed hundreds of years before by someone with a lyrical view of the countryside who had never had to run through a bramble bush with a gerfalcon hanging on their ear.

The largest species of falcon is the Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus).

Perhaps the Icelandic population described as Falco rusticolus islandus is the most distinct.

Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus, bird of the Northwest Territories)

A paleosubspecies, Falco rusticolus swarthi, existed during the Late Pleistocene (125,000 to 13,000 years ago).

GYRFALCON Falco rusticolus.

It appears that Altai falcons are either natural hybrids between Sakers and Gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus), or rather the descendants of such rare hybrids back-crossing into the large population of Sakers.

The term "Geier" should not be applied to the modern Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus); the Gyrfalcon is a distinct species of falcon (the largest of the falcon family), and is not a vulture.