hawkling

plural hawklings

1. A small, young, or immature hawk.

   The young nestlings of hawks; these hawklings being untrained, and good for little in falconry.

   1851, Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland, Lives of the queens of England

   2 more examples

   The day's tragedies had begun; the east was warm with color, and streamers of light were woven through the clouds; but I thought that, somewhere near me, the mocker's' mate was sitting on her nest, and that somewhere, further away, there were young hawklings who, also, have a right to life.

   1913, The Oriole - Volumes 1-4 - Page 18

   It was a bird, a small hawkling. A baby. And as she watched, it began to stretch its wet, feeble wings.

   2009, Nancy Werlin, Locked Inside