gerfalcon

This bird is much larger than the Peregrine Falcon, and, indeed, is very little less than the great gerfalcon itself.

Smaller than the royal gerfalcon, the Bishop's bird was none the less a swift and beautiful creature.

And who that putteth that knight to the worse shall have a fair maid and a gerfalcon.

He put his gerfalcon on the perch provided in the hall for such use by the guests.

But the falcon was indeed a thoroughbred, with the eye of a gerfalcon.