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Definition of Fishing eagle
1. Noun. Of southeast Europe and central Asia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishing Eagle
Literary usage of Fishing eagle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"... fishing eagle—The Musical Sparrow-Hawk— The Secretary Eagle.—Beasts of Prey:
The Lion—Fictitious Character ascribed to him —Mode of Seizing his ..."
2. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"(364) Synonyms: American Osprey, Fish Hawk, fishing eagle.—Falco carolinensis,
Gmel., 1788.—Pandion carolinensis of authors generally. ..."
3. Shooting and Fishing in the Rivers, Prairies, and Backwoods of North America by Bénédict Henry Révoil, Chronicler (1865)
"THE FISHING-EAGLE OP SARATOGA SPRINGS. ONE evening, by one of the finest moonlights
that ever illuminated the giant banks of the Hudson, I got on board one ..."
4. The feathered tribes of the British islands by Robert Mudie (1834)
"The fishing eagle partakes of the characters both of the eagles and the falcons.
It agrees with, or at least approaches the eagles, in size and in the habit ..."
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