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 Translation for 'white-eyed' from English to Dutch
vogelk.T
grote torenvalk {de} [Falco rupicoloides]
white-eyed kestrel
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Translation for 'white-eyed' from English to Dutch

white-eyed kestrel
grote torenvalk {de} [Falco rupicoloides]vogelk.T
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Usage Examples English
  • This is presumed to be the reason behind the decline of the critically endangered white-eyed river martin, a species that is only known from a few specimens collected in Thailand.
  • The greater kestrel ("Falco rupicoloides") or white-eyed kestrel, is a bird of prey belonging to the falcon family Falconidae.
  • A study of power lines in Rajasthan in 2011 found white-eyed buzzards to be the second most common raptor killed by electrocution after kestrels.
  • even closely related birds such as the red-eyed and white-eyed vireos differ by 2.9%.
  • An endemic subspecies is the Bermuda white-eyed vireo or chick-of-the-village ("Vireo griseus bermudianus").

  • The white-eyed river martin was discovered as recently as 1969 and is only known from specimens and anecdotal evidence – no modern ornithologists have seen the species in the wild, and its breeding grounds are unknown.
  • Knowing this, the geneticist may perform a complementation test on two separately obtained strains of pure-breeding white-eyed flies.
  • In the culture of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) in Taiwan, such as "Lineage", griefers are known as "white-eyed"—a metaphor meaning that their eyes have no pupils and so they look without seeing.
  • In Russian folk legends, the Chudes were described as exalted and beautiful. One characteristic of the Chudes was 'white-eyed', which means lightly colored eyes.
  • Johnson was featured extensively in the early work of cartoonist Drew Friedman, where Johnson was depicted as "Tor", a slow-witted, white-eyed lummox based on Johnson's persona in Ed Wood's films.

  • Thomas Hunt Morgan used radium to induce changes resulting in white-eyed fruit flies.
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan later showed that a new white-eye mutation in Drosophila melanogaster was also sex-linked.
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