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Acute vision allows them to spot prey a mile away.
The nictitating membrane, or third-eyelid, helps to maintain their vision in their high-speed dives, and the secretory gland keeps their corneas from drying out because of all that
wind. But none of this would be possible if the peregrine couldn’t breathe.
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winking, blinking
“But she gave me only a dry look. A blink crossed the table. It even seemed to come from the bottom of her eye upward, like a nictitating membrane.”
present participle and gerund of nictitate