The gyrfalcon can certainly not catch a phalarope in flight.
The only enemy of the full-grown birds is the gyrfalcon (Falco gyrfalco), which will surprise and capture them when lying on the water.
The gyrfalcon left the feeding area when approached to within 450 feet and, as did the other gyrfalcon, flew south over the upland tundra rather than over the lowlands of inundated sedges.
On July 4, one gyrfalcon sat on a promontory at the south end of Barrier Lake.
Westley Redhead told us that a gyrfalcon was at Umiat as early as the latter part of May, 1952.
The gyrfalcon is the speed-king among birds, but the hoary bat is faster still.
Driven down from Greenland by cold and famine, a white gyrfalcon was haunting these solitudes like some grim ghost of the upper sky.
When only a streak of silver sky, with a shoal of little violet clouds, was left of the daylight the gyrfalcon gave up the chase.
The latter more nearly resembles the true gyrfalcon of Norway, which, however, is generally darker, rather smaller, but with a longer tail.
The largest European falcons are the jerfalcon or gyrfalconproper (Falco gyrfalco), a native of the Scandinavian Peninsula, and the Iceland falcon (F.
The Egyptians venerated the Falcon, and to this circumstance the name of Gyrfalcon must be attributed, as it is a corruption of Hierofalco, or Sacred Falcon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gyrfalcon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
