The word "peregrine" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to somebody or something that has traveled a long distance, or to describe a person who is constantly traveling from place to place. Example: "The peregrine traveler never stayed in one place for too long; his feet carried him around the world for years."
My long weekend had begun 48 hours earlier when 15 strangers assembled for a guided swimming trip that would see us cover 17km of the river Wye, from the market town of Ross to the magnificent Symonds Yat gorge that's patrolled by peregrine falcons.
Like other birds of prey, the harrier has been protected by law since 1954, but while buzzards and peregrine falcons have recovered their numbers, in England, hen harriers are now close to extinction.
"The first birds I've seen – my first stork, my first peregrine, my first glossy ibis – they all fell out of the sky, shot," said Mifsud.
If you want to see a mountain hare (turned white in winter), a spangled golden plover or a peregrine falcon, pull on a pair of boots and come to the Peak.
One of the more unpleasant facts of nature is that some birds of prey such as the peregrine falcon, the sparrow-hawk and the hen harrier mainly eat other birds.
Gutters collect smelly pigeon carcasses half-chewed by the peregrine falcons that nest there.
ON JULY 9th Russ Wasendorf senior, the owner and chief executive of Peregrine Financial Group, was found parked in front of his corporate headquarters in Cedar Falls, Iowa, more dead than alive.
See articleThe US Commodities Futures Trading Commission filed a complaint against Peregrine Financial Group and its founder, Russ Wasendorf senior, a day after he attempted suicide.
However, Raymond Foo, of BNP Paribas Peregrine in Hong Kong, believes they might, as investors come to see the city as a riskier place to do business.In the rogues gallery of human pestilence, SARS is so far a minor character.
Among those who received a seven-week bail this week were Imtiyaz Husain, chairman of the Dhaka stock exchange; Runa Alam, head of the Bangladesh offices of a Hong Kong-based investment bank, Peregrine Investment Holdings; and Sohail and Salman Rah man, the two brothers who lead the largest group of companies in Bangladesh, Beximco Group.
Six California condors bred at the Los Angeles Zoo and at the Peregrine Fund World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho, were released into northern Arizona by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in December.
