hawklet

noun

hawklet

noun

Etymology From hawk + -let.

1

Synonym of hawkling.

It is not uncommon, up to the age of 3 weeks, to discover one of the hawklets missing from the nest, sometimes lying dead on the ground below.1964, G Ronald Austing, The world of the red-tailed hawk, Lippincott, →OCLC, page 57:

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