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    Peregrines called "hawks" in a book

    Also, to emphasize, hawks (accipiters) and falcons didn't belong to different taxonomic orders in the 1960s. All diurnal birds of prey were in the order Falconiformes.
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    Peregrines called "hawks" in a book

    In British English "hawk" used to be a perfectly acceptable generic term for diurnal raptors. The first definition of "hawk" from my compact edition of the Oxford English dictionary (copyright 1971): "Any diurnal bird of prey used in falconry; any bird in the family Falconidae [not sure what...
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