raptorial in English

adjective
1
(of a bird or other animal) predatory.
Compared to most raptorial birds, saw-whet owls are a very small-bodied species with high mass-specific metabolic costs.

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2. Accipitrine: Of or pertaining to the Accipitres or raptorial birds, or

3. The most basal deuteropods are retrieved as a paraphyletic lineage that features plesiomorphic raptorial frontalmost Appendages and includes …

4. Cinereous vulture The Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) is a large raptorial bird that is distributed through much of temperate Eurasia

5. The Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) is a large raptorial bird that is distributed through much of temperate Eurasia

6. The Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) is a large raptorial bird that is distributed through much of temperate Eurasia

7. Accipiter (n.) raptorial bird, 1708, from Latin Accipiter, a generic name for birds of prey, especially the common hawk.

8. So, the smasher raptorial appendage can stab with a point at the end, or it can smash with the heel.

9. Compared with omnivorous pheasants,[sentencedict .com] insectivorous birds and raptorial birds Koklass's digestive system is similar to the typical phytophagous birds.

10. Having no raptorial adaptations, this terrifying avian freak of nature conducts incredibly crude and brutal Butcherings in its bid to live like an eagle.

11. The Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) is a large raptorial bird that is distributed through much of Eurasia.It is also known as the black vulture, monk vulture, or Eurasian black vulture

12. Two major exceptions to this are Hatzegopteryx, which was a robustly built raptorial predator of relatively large prey, including medium-sized dinosaurs; and Alanqa, which may have been a specialist molluscivore.

13. In Thai: อีแร้งดำหิมาลัย, e-raeng dam Hi-ma-lai Binomial name: Aegypius monachus, Carolus Linnaeus, 1766 The Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) is a large raptorial bird that is distributed through much of temperate Eurasia.

14. This is opposite to what has been found in most non-raptorial altricial birds, and may have been caused by the ability of Kestrel parents to dismember large prey and thus overcome the gape size-restricted swallowing capacity of small nestlings, together with a need to provide smaller prey to older nestlings when they start to feed unassisted.

15. Secondary lead shot poisoning has now been documented in many locations in Europe and North America in various raptorial species, including Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles Aquila chrysaetos, Northern Goshawks Accipiter g. gentilis, European Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus, Marsh Harriers Circus aeruginosus, Red-tailed Hawks Buteo jamaicensis, and Rough-legged Hawks Buteo lagopus (USFWS 1986; Pain and Amiard-Triquet 1993; Pain et al.