greyheaded

(ˌɡreɪˈhɛdɪd) or

grayheaded

adj

having grey hair

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A deceased 1-year-old captive female greyheaded (Cape) parrot (Poicephalus robustus suahelicus) presented for a comprehensive postmortem examination.

Fatal Leucocytozoon Infection in a Captive Grey-headed Parrot (Poicephalus robustus suahelicus)

A major autumn feeding ground for fin whales, southern fulmars and greyheaded albatrosses around the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

Ocurrencia de ballenas fin y jorobadas en el Mar de Scotia y area marina protegida de las islas Orcadas del Sur, Antartida

Also, an unknown number of Black Flying-foxes Pteropus alecto, accompanying a large influx of Greyheaded Flying-foxes P poliocephalus, were found in Melbourne in approximately 2010 (L Lumsden 2014 pers.

Changes in Victoria's mammal fauna since European settlement

At Elsehul, a narrow bay on the very western tip of the island, we watch light-mantled sooty and greyheaded albatross swoop overhead, some gliding so low I'm almost knocked over by the powerful wind beneath their wings.

A wilderness frozen in time; This year it will be 100 years since explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic crossing of South Georgia. SARAH MARSHALL explores the snowy paradise where penguins, elephant seals and wild weather rule

The forage range for the four types of flying-foxes--black, greyheaded, little red and spectacled--varies.

Preliminary spatial analysis of Hendra disease outbreaks in south east Queensland

Red headed (now probably greyheaded)" (SL 608-609).

In their time: the riddle behind the epistolary friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Ivan Kashkin

Richards, 'The Development of Strategies for Management of the Flying-Fox Colony at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney', in Managing the GreyHeaded Flying-Fox as a Threatened Species in Nsw, Peggy Eby and Daniel Lunney (eds), Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2002, pp189-199.

Cosmopolitics: the kiss of life

Senescence effects in an extremely long-lived bird: The greyheaded albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma.

The arctic Phoenix

Standing next to those greyheaded senators and baldies at the White House, the Prime Minister looked fresh-faced and shiny.

Cam still in prime nick; MAN OF THE PEOPLE

For while those female whales are characteristically timid, the young males, or forty-barrel-bulls, as they call them, are by far the most pugnacious of all Leviathans, and proverbially the most dangerous to encounter; excepting those wondrous greyheaded, grizzled whales, sometimes met, and these will fight you like grim fiends exasperated by a penal gout.

Part V: Herman Melville's "; or The Whale"

The poem that began as % comedy of the passions," (26) with an inquisitive vicar, has ended in tragedy, with a "greyheaded Mariner" (431).