An eyrie (a variant of aerie) is a
bird nest
A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young. Although the term popularly refers to a specific structure made by the bird itself—such as the grassy cup nest of the American robin or Eurasian bl ...
of an eagle, falcon, hawk, or other bird of prey.
Eyrie may also refer to:
Places
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Eyrie Bay
Eyrie Bay is a bay, wide at its mouth and extending inland, lying north of Jade Point on Yatrus Promontory, Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica. It was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or ...
, a bay in Antarctica
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Glen Eyrie, a castle near Colorado Springs, Colorado
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The Eyrie Vineyards
The Eyrie Vineyards is an American winery in Oregon that consists of in five different vineyards in the Dundee Hills AVA of the Willamette Valley. In 1965, against the advice of his viticultural professors at the University of California, Davis, ...
, an American winery in Oregon
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Eyrie'' (novel), a novel by Tim Winton
*"Hope Eyrie" (a.k.a. "The Eagle Has Landed"), a song by
Leslie Fish
Leslie Fish is a folk musician, author, and anarchist political activist.
Music
Along with The DeHorn Crew, in 1976 she created the first commercial filk recording, ''Folk Songs for Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet''. Her second recording, ''Solar S ...
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The Eyrie
The fictional world in which the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents, known collectively as The Known World.
Most of the story takes place on the continent of Westeros and in ...
, a castle in ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' and its TV adaptation ''Game of Thrones''
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Aerie (disambiguation)
Aerie (a variant of eyrie) is the bird nest of an eagle, falcon, hawk, or other bird of prey.
Aerie may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities
* Aerie (''Baldur's Gate''), a character in ''Baldur's Gate II''
* Aerie Cl ...
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Eagle's Nest (disambiguation) Eagle's Nest, The Eagle's Nest, Eagle Nest, Eagles Nest or Eaglenest may refer to a bird nest for eagles.
The terms may also refer to:
Geography United States
*Eagle Nest (Pink Hills, North Carolina), historic home
* Eagle Nest, Michigan, an ...
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Eerie
''Eerie'' was an American magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing. Like '' Mad'', it was a black-and-white magazine intended for newsstand distribution and did not submit its stories to the comic book industry's voluntar ...
'', an American magazine of horror comics
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Erie, Pennsylvania
Erie (; ) is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. Erie is the fifth largest city in Pennsylvania and the largest city in Northwestern Pennsylvania with a population of 94,831 a ...
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Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
or Éire
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Snowdonia
Snowdonia or Eryri (), is a mountainous region in northwestern Wales and a national park of in area. It was the first to be designated of the three national parks in Wales, in 1951.
Name and extent
It was a commonly held belief that the nam ...
or Eryri
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Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (; 24 June 176713 June 1846) was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories '' Fantasmagoriana'', published anonymously in 18 ...
(1767–1846), French geographer, author and translator
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