The falcons sit like silent sentries, eerily still on wooden perches, their heads encased by hoods.
Few perches provide more dramatic vistas than that of the cockpit of an airplane.
Bits of fresh meat reward the birds when they return to their home perches.
Tibidabo perches in the mountains overlooking Barcelona and is accessed by a rickety, 100-year-old funicular.
Robotic elevators pluck 500 cars a day from their sky-high perches and present them to their waiting owners down below.
Both candidates put their business reputations and millions of their own dollars on the line to secure their political perches.
If Mr Kotlikoff is the most hawkish of fiscal hawks, Mr Galbraith perches at the opposite corner of the menagerie.
It was a world of wills and bequests, where young lovers lived on dreams until old curmudgeons fell off their perches.
Rowe Price got to their perches by exploiting lack of information or by investing in assets others shunned due to perceived risk.
Dress up for the Sky Lounge bar, which perches on the roof of the medieval Consorti Tower, overlooking the Ponte Vecchio to the Tuscan hills.
But it remains to be seen how he handles the situation when the deals require his confronting allied interests and dismantling their protectionist perches.
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The potential move of both Ms. Couric and Mr. Lauer from their established perches comes at a time of flux for the TV business.
Squatting on their perches, they spout unexpected bits of literary philosophy, then revert to hooting and bouncing up and down in comically ape-like excitement.
Each level plays like a mini-sandbox, full of tunnels, rooftop perches, sniper posts and other myriad combinations of ways to bring the target down.
Split into more than 200 individual falls and islands, it provides a dizzying array of stunning vistas and perches from which to view the area.
That said, versus many "sport" perches, BMW doesn't go overboard here.
Across the bay from Rio, it perches on a cliff-top - an upturned flying saucer, its curves reflected in a pool which encircles its central pillar.
C. to the 16th century, it provides an almost infinite array of perches and areas from which to take in some of the world's most breathtaking views.
The movie is not the kind of portentous bio-pic in which history, like some sort of hooded eagle, perches on the shoulders of every scene, waiting to soar.
The cage must also contain litter, perches and claw-shortening devices.
In terms of geographic location, the lovely renderings released by Connect:Homes prove that the homes look good just about anywhere, from woodland meadows to uber-dramatic hillside perches to suburban lots.
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She first sears the steak in a very hot pan, then perches it on a rack set on a baking sheet and pops it into a hot oven to finish cooking.
Beadie perches dangerously close to the window ledge, threatening to jump, and even though she has wings on her back and little ones at her ankles Matilda pleads with her to stop.
''Chhotu is very friendly, really quite harmless, but can be pricey in other ways too, '' his handler Raja Goswami reveals, as his pet primate perches above him on a branch, peering lazily at his surroundings.
This is clear most notably in the case of industrial melanism, a process that turned light-coloured moths sooty black so that they would match their daytime perches in the polluted cities of the industrial revolution.
Three female committee chairwomen will also be losing their powerful perches: Rep. Louise Slaughter at the House Rules Committee, Rep. Nydia Velazquez at the Small Business Committee and Rep. Zoe Lofgren at the House Ethics Committee.
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The danger, indeed, is that by holding on indefinitely to their perches at the Bank and the IMF, the US and Europe risk alienating public opinion in emerging countries, and driving emerging markets away from those institutions to create their own regional institutions where they would feel represented.
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