Why this word is great
WINDHOVER — [Noun] The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), a small falcon defined by its characteristic hunting technique of hovering in place while facing into the wind. From the English words 'wind' (moving air) and 'hover' (to remain suspended in the air), describing the bird's flight behavior; compare the earlier term 'windfucker'. Unlike 'kestrel,' the dispassionate taxonomic label, or 'hawk,' the broad, generic term for soaring raptors, 'windhover' is a kinetic portrait, a verb made noun. It is a russet-and-grey cruciform hung against a scudding sky, a tremor of focused wings in a gale, a living fulcrum between the earth's pull and the air's push—a creature defined not by what it is, but by the perfect, effortful stillness it achieves in the face of a moving world.