Definition of Tawny eagle

1. Noun. Brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia.

Exact synonyms: Aquila Rapax
Generic synonyms: Bird Of Jove, Eagle
Group relationships: Aquila, Genus Aquila

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tawny Eagle

tawked
tawking
tawks
tawn
tawneys
tawnier
tawnies
tawniest
tawnily
tawniness
tawninesses
tawny
tawny-breasted tinamou
tawny-breasted tinamous
tawny-owl
tawny eagle (current term)
tawny owl
tawny owls
tawpie
tawpies
taws
tawse
tawsed
tawses
tawsing
tawt
tawted
tawtie
tawtier
tawtiest

Literary usage of Tawny eagle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On Safari: Big Game Hunting in British East Africa with Studies in Bird Live by Abel Chapman (1908)
"While off-skinning the second, a tawny eagle (Aq. rapax) joined the throng of assembling vultures ... I noticed a single vulture which with its tawny eagle. ..."

2. The Royal Gallery of Poetry and Art: An Illustrated Book of the Favorite by Nathan David Thompson (1886)
"THE EAGLE. i tawny Eagle seats his callow brood High on the cliff, aud feasts his youug with blood : On Snowdon's rocks, or Orkney's wide domain. ..."

3. Feathered Favourites: Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds by Joseph Wolf (1854)
"Now the chain is o'er thee cast: From thy heart the blood flows fast, —Woe for gifted souls and high ! Is not such their destiny ? BARBAULD. HE tawny Eagle ..."

4. Wild Spain (España Agreste): Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun by Abel Chapman, Walter John Buck (1893)
"The grounds for this opinion are that the bird -we consider to be the tawny eagle is of different type and build, besides being of a darker and richer ..."

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