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  • Additional observations on the intertarsal joint of the African harrier-hawk Polyboroides typus.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • A heron rose out of the shallows, and a harrier-hawk swooped to the pounce, but the long bird flopped securely into the western sky, and the hawk dropped at his feet, dead but with no mark of a wound.

    The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

  • I haven’t yet checked to see if there are any more recent studies of harrier-hawk ankles (let me know if you know better), but I find that pretty amazing.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

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