Crossword-Solution: GYRFALCON
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Gyrfalcon | n. | One of several species and varieties of large Arctic falcons, esp. Falco rusticolus and the white species F. Islandicus, both of which are circumpolar. The black and the gray are varieties of the former. See Illust. of Accipiter. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “GYRFALCON”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| NWT's official bird | 1 answer |
| large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases | 1 answer |
| Jerkin | 6 answers |
| ARCTIC BIRD OF PREY | 11 answers |
| Arctic bird | 29 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "GYRFALCON"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Dermatological complaint
?
E
?
C
?
Z
?
E
?
M
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCAEEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
8 +2
New Suggestion for "GYRFALCON"
Related word tools
Sentences with GYRFALCON (5)
Among these are the golden eagle, the white-headed or sea eagle, the osprey, the peregrine falcon, the gyrfalcon, the merlin goshawk, the common buzzard, rough-legged buzzard, hen-harrier, long-eared owl, short-eared owl, great snowy owl, and Tengmalm's owl.
FAMILY FALCONIDÆ GYRFALCON _Falco rusticolus gyrfalco_ A large Hawk with long, pointed wings, the upper parts brown with numerous narrow, buffy bars or margins, the tail evenly barred with grayish and blackish, the underparts white lightly streaked with black.
That means a family of mink somewhere near, to be given their first lesson in bird-hunting, in mink-hawking by the body of this poor, dead, foolish gyrfalcon.
And if the poor gyrfalcon could have seen the mink held by the jaws of a steel-trap, hissing, snarling, breaking its teeth on the iron, spitting out all the rage of its wicked nature, the bird would have been avenged.
When approached to within 250 feet, the gyrfalcon, rather than flying north over the lake and lowlands, flew south across the upland tundra.