Sentence examples for large raptor from inspiring English sources

The discovery is the first time scientists have documented evidence that a large raptor had feathered wings, according to DePalma.

Previously the ship had been planned to have four large Raptor engines and two smaller sea-level engines for landing purposes.

To determine how some lucky prey escape the birds' deadly talons, researchers strapped a 20-gram video camera to the head of a northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), a large raptor commonly used in falconry.

The MCT is SpaceX's personnel transport craft, designed to be used with the company's large Raptor rocket engine to transport the first humans to Mars, with a pilot unmanned launch planned for 2022, and a first flight with people on board slated for 2024.

It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm in length and 180 cm across the wings.

Thus the same prey item might be considered "large" for a small raptor species (e.g., a kestrel), but "small" for a large raptor species (e.g., a peregrine falcon).

Large raptors, notably Himalayan griffons, lammergeiers, and golden eagles, soar on the updrafts of mountain winds.

Mediterraneans shoot cranes, storks, and large raptors for which governments to the north have multimillion-euro conservation projects.

Young otters (pups) may fall prey to large raptors, and various carnivores may kill adults traveling on land.

Hawks and other large raptors do not like to flap their wings, the Cape May bird experts said, so they tend to soar on the thermal winds coming off mountains.

Although black vultures are found throughout much of southern Europe and central Asia, from Portugal in the west to Korea in the east, they are nowhere common, and like so many large raptors they have suffered huge declines in recent decades.