(n.) One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares.
(n.) One who harries.
(n.) One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus Circus which fly low and harry small animals or birds, -- as the European marsh harrier (Circus aerunginosus), and the hen harrier (C. cyaneus).
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(2) For the first time in 30 years, and possibly longer, fresh water from deep underground is not filling the ditches and reedbeds of the 40-hectare reserve known for its bitterns, water voles and marsh harriers.
(3) She suggested that hen harriers could be easily scared off.
(4) Even when we had 14 pairs here, the RSPB still wanted more, instead of dispelling the myth that the harrier could take gamekeepers’ livelihoods away.” Grouse moorland is “the best and the worst place for the hen harrier,” added Murphy.
(5) Ward Sr described the decision to retire the Harrier as "absolutely appalling" and said his son had been absolutely right to speak out.
(6) Adults £11, six-15 years £7.60 Royal Air Force Museum, Barnet, London History lessons come to life at this museum in north London, which houses over 100 aircraft including Harriers, Chinooks, Tiger Moths and an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet.
(7) Some birds of prey also thrived on grouse moors because of these plentiful food supplies: merlin were four times more numerous on grouse moors than in other locations (although this may be because, unlike hen harriers, they are too small to kill grouse).
(8) Sir Mark Stanhope, the head of the navy, told the committee that the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and its jumpjet Harriers would have been used to bomb Libya had they not been axed.
(9) It's the last place on Earth you would want to be with feathers.” His films show him breaking down on several occasions, particularly when he visited a Maltese vet and sees a Montague's harrier, which has to be put down after it was illegally shot.
(10) If the Harriers do fall victim to the Tornados, there may be no suitable aircraft available to fly from the first carrier, the Queen Elizabeth, which is due to enter service in 2016.
(11) We let the owners of grouse moors , 1% of the 1%, shoot and poison hen harriers, peregrines and eagles.
(12) Even when a naturalist working for the government witnessed two hen harriers being shot out of the sky seven years ago, the Crown Prosecution Service brought no charges.
(13) It's a glass case filled with pictures of aircraft cut haphazardly from newspapers, each one meticulously labelled like an animal specimen: Hawk, Harrier, Bear, Chinook.
(14) Since 2000, 20 gamekeepers have been found guilty of “raptor persecution” or poisoning offences on grouse moorland, including one who killed a hen harrier in Scotland.
(15) • The government to retire the Harrier jump jet and reduce RAF manpower by 5,000 to 33,000 by 2015.
(16) Not because these powerful birds of prey represented a danger to wildlife, but because the harriers themselves are under threat.
(17) I have listened to all the military advice, and the military advice is pretty clear that when we have to make difficult decisions, it is right to keep the Typhoon as our principal ground attack aircraft, working in Afghanistan at the moment, and it is right to retire the Harrier."
(18) The keeper sees the harrier now as not just the thing that can eat their grouse but can upset their day-to-day life.
(19) Despite the performance of the Harrier jump jets, the landing was made without air superiority.
(20) Moorland owners, Anderson explained to me, wanted to be allowed to move hen harrier nests.