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Significados de secretary bird en inglés

portugués
secretário
catalán
secretari
español
secretario

Large long-legged African bird of prey that feeds on reptiles.

secretario
Uso de secretary bird en inglés
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The secretary bird stands over 4 ft. tall on long, crane-like legs.
Reuters
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He was with that sailor-looking man measuring the height of the secretary bird.
A Reputed Changeling; Or, Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago
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Eh, not really for me, says the secretary bird.
Wired
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The snake-hunting secretary bird of Africa, or the cassowary.
Jurassic Park
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On the top is a secretary bird, the national bird in the South African coat of arms.
The South African
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So can the secretary bird kick it?
Wired
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It's the secretary bird.
Wired
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Here, for the first time, I saw the secretary bird, known to the Arabs as the "Devil's horse."
The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the ...
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Unfortunately the secretary bird, which had a particularly long neck, stuck it into the hyena den, and that was the end of it.
The tower, the zoo and the tortoise
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Unlike most birds of prey that swoop down from the air to make a kill, the secretary bird hunts its quarry mostly on foot.
Reuters
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Here they saw large numbers of secretary birds and bustards and maramots and springbok antelope.
The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the...
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What was that weird stuff the Secretary Bird spouted when you showed Phillis to him, Kit?
The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
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Pearly mountains and deep blue sky, and an impassable pass to walk down, and baboons, and secretary birds, and tortoises!
Letters from the Cape
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"I shall be nice to the Secretary Bird now."
The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
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'Oh, what is a secretary bird?'
Swiss Family Robinson
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'Suppose, for example, that a great flight of secretary birds had arrived, they might have cleared the island of rattlesnakes.'
Swiss Family Robinson
Translations for secretary bird
portugués
secretário
catalán
secretari
español
secretario