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
The U.S. bald eagle population has quadrupled since 2009, and these large, white-headed raptors are now a regular sight even in New York City; bald eagles breed on Staten Island, for example.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2022
It was a little old white-headed woman working in a flower bed.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
