white-headed

Example Sentences

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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

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

I kept glancing at the blank, stony, pinched faces of the men and women staring at me from steps and doorways, and at the children, all white-headed just like you see them in the Appalachians.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns