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

Remnants 971 of a heron-like bird, Proherodius, of a gull-like creature, Halcyornis, a raptorial Lithornis; and a supposed Passerine from Glarus in Switzerland, called Protornis = Osteornis, complete the list.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

It was not a very magnificent present, but the action seems to show that the bird possesses some commendable qualities which are seldom seen in the raptorial family.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)