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Birds have a transparent or translucent third eyelid called a nictitating membrane which can be drawn across the eye for protection and to moisten the eye while maintaining visibility. Unlike the upper and lower eyelids, the nictitating membrane moves horizontally across the eyeball.

By chance, I caught this picture of the changeable hawk-eagle while the nictitating membrane of its left eye was drawn half-way across the eye...