saker

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English - Turkish
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) Ulu doğan: Doğangiller (Falconidae) familyasından oldukça iri bir doğan türü
şahin
saker falcon
(Kuşbilim) Ulu doğan
English - English
A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century
A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia
{n} a kind of cannon, a kind of hawk
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) A Eurasian falcon (Falco cherrug) having brown plumage and often trained for falconry
A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, also known as the peregrine falcon
A small piece of artillery
The peregrine falcon
A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner
saker falcon
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) The Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) is a very large falcon. This species breeds from eastern Europe eastwards across Asia to Manchuria. It is mainly migratory except in the southernmost parts of its range, wintering in Ethiopia, the Arabian peninsula, northern India and western China. During the end of the last ice age - oxygen isotope stages 3-2, some 40,000 to 10,000 years ago -, it also occurred in Poland (Tomek & Bocheński 2005)
saker

    Hyphenation

    sa·ker

    Turkish pronunciation

    seykır

    Synonyms

    saker falcon

    Pronunciation

    /ˈsākər/ /ˈseɪkɜr/

    Etymology

    [ 'sA-k&r ] (noun.) 15th century. From French sacre, from Spanish sacro, from Arabic صقر, probably from Turkic soŋqur. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2008.
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