white-headed

Example Sentences

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The white-headed raptors would show up in winter to feast on fish when their lakes farther north froze over.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

The bald eagle is now officially the national bird of the US, after President Joe Biden signed a law on Christmas Eve bestowing the honour upon the white-headed and yellow-beaked bird of prey.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

Other birds that flock to burned forests include white-headed woodpeckers, Lewis's woodpeckers, three-toed woodpeckers, olivesided flycatchers, Clark's nutcrackers and mountain bluebirds.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2022

And we saw sitting in that same place as it were a man, white-headed, having hair like snow; youthful of countenance; whose feet we saw not.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

The flock had to wait the white-headed leader, but it was hard.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston