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- noun Alternative form of
sparrow hawk .
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Examples
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In summertime, when birds are most abundant, after the breeding season, the sparrowhawk is a fastidious feeder.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881
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Which is basically pretty rubbish - it was very quiet today - but is livened up by a couple of decent species: sparrowhawk, which is increasingly common around here but by no means something I see in the garden often, and green woodpecker, which it turns out I have seen once before on a BGBW, but was still pleasing.
Heraclitean Fire 2009
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In front of a white garage door, the female sparrowhawk was standing on the pigeon's chest, a trail of down feathers to the side testament to a tumbling struggle.
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The prone pigeon was dead or doomed and the sparrowhawk needed to eat rather than flee.
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But the sparrowhawk had turned too and held close on its tail.
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The prone pigeon was dead or doomed and the sparrowhawk needed to eat rather than flee.
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The kestrel is now the only British bird of prey in decline, having dropped from its once unchallenged first place in the league table of UK raptors to third, behind the buzzard and sparrowhawk.
Birdwatch: Kestrel 2011
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In front of a white garage door, the female sparrowhawk was standing on the pigeon's chest, a trail of down feathers to the side testament to a tumbling struggle.
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Time talking on a country stroll was time not being attuned to the dash of a sparrowhawk or the flowering of bird's-foot-trefoil.
Patrick Barkham: Hunting butterflies, finding Dad Patrick Barkham 2010
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But the sparrowhawk had turned too and held close on its tail.
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