Sentence examples for a pale patch from inspiring English sources

Avid hunters will spend hours on the beach, their skin baking to deep oranges, reds and browns save for a pale patch on the arm where the cuff of the detector is affixed.

In common with many other Pyrrhura parakeets, especially within the Painted and the Maroon-faced (Pyrrhura leucotis) parakeet groups, roseifrons is mostly green with whitish auriculars, which form a pale patch on the sides of the head, and with a red tail and center to the belly.

In common with many other Pyrrhura parakeets, especially within the Painted and the Maroon-faced (Pyrrhura leucotis) parakeet groups, the Bonaparte's Parakeet is mostly green with whitish auriculars, which form a pale patch on the sides of the head, and with a red tail and center to the belly.

This parrot is primarily green with dark wingtips, some red feathering on the flanks and underwing, with a largely brown head, relieved by a pale patch of bare skin around the eyes, and a line of red feathers in the post-ocular region.

Rich brown overall, with white patch next to bill and, in summer, often a pale "ear" patch toward the back of the head.

In a and b, the prominent pale patch is the translucent skin beneath which the hagfish "eye" is buried.

When sitting, the Rhinoceros Auklet is all dark above the water line, and when in flight, a pale belly patch can be seen.

The change from winter to breeding plumage is subtle in this bird, but during breeding it does show a pale circular patch on the face, and a pale "saddle bag" on the breast side but in a more subdued manner than the Ruddy Turnstone.

Adults generally have a pale yellow patch on the crown of the head.

On the rounded face, there is a pale white patch above the nose and between the eyes; some individuals have dark orbital markings.

Every pale patch on the ground was a polar bear hunched in the willows, sheltering from the wind.