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the air's deadliest sniper, reading a mouse's heartbeat from a hundred feet up
means A hawk is a sharp-eyed bird of prey that hunts smaller animals by sight, typically catching them with its talons; the word also means to sell goods aggressively or to clear the throat noisily.
from The bird-name comes from Old English 'hafoc,' a relative of Old Norse 'haukr' and German 'Habicht,' all tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root tied to the idea of seizing or grasping — fitting for a creature that lives by its grip. The 'peddle wares' sense is a separate strand: it's a back-formation from 'hawker,' itself probably borrowed from Low German or Dutch, and likely cousin to 'huckster.' The throat-clearing 'hawk' is simply imitative — the sound naming itself.
- eyesight
- sees eight times sharper than humans
- diving speed
- some stoop over 150 miles per hour
- head trick
- can rotate neck nearly 180 degrees
- vision range
- spots prey a mile away
- tiny terror
- smallest hawks weigh under four ounces
red-tailed hawk — most common hawk in north america, found from canada to panama
harris's hawk — only hawk species that hunts cooperatively in groups, native to americas
eurasian sparrowhawk — smallest hawk in europe, preys on small birds across eurasia