Example Sentences

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An internet search identified them as Japanese white-eyes.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

Thus eye ring differences among white-eyes may drive reproductive isolation, and ultimately speciation, among island bird populations.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2011

Not all white-eyes have white eye rings, and not all eye rings are created equal.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2011

Within the first several hours of netting, we capture a whole flock of endemic Kolombangara white-eyes, one of our target species, which are found only on Kolombangara above 800 meters.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2010

With July ends the normal breeding season of the tree-pies, white-eyes, ioras; king-crows, bank-mynas, paradise flycatchers, brown rock-chats, Indian robins, dhayals, red-winged bush-larks, sunbirds, rollers, swifts, green pigeons, lapwings and butcher-birds.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas