raptorial

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The team also examined owl and raptorial predators however while the effects were the same, they were not as evident.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

In either case, we clearly have underestimated the abilities of those big, beady, raptorial eyes.

From Scientific American • Oct. 13, 2018

Equipped with grasping, raptorial appendages, these Ordovician hunters plucked up soft-bodied prey and fed it into their camera-shutter mouths.

From Science Magazine • May 25, 2011

I think we may say birds of light diet are all good, and draw the line at all carrion or raptorial birds.

From Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by Anonymous

To every migratory species of raptorial bird, that captures living quarry, there is a non-migratory counterpart or near relative.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas