1987, John Joseph Craven, ‎Jefferson Davis, & ‎Edward K. Eckert , "Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life , Mr. Davis said he had been much interested all the morning watching from the grated embrasure, near which his bed lay, the free flight of fish-hawks, so plentiful during the summer in Hampton Roads, and some of which still lingered.
2014 , Henry Youle Hind , Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 , Eagles and fish-hawks were the only birds visible in this part of the Winnipeg, the other species of the feathered tribe being in the rice-fields.