The coloration of feathers elicits curiosity in the ornithologist and admiration in the birder. |
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A bird needs wings for lift, tail feathers for control and lightweight bones. |
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But these impressive feathers in Jim's adventuring cap have not cured him of wanderlust. |
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She got extra points for her bird bath, which is invaluable especially in winter for birds to keep their feathers clean and fluffy. |
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For the most part, the so-called feather mites live a quiet life, hanging out on the surface of bird feathers, feeding off oil and fungi. |
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As they were going along they found the feathers of different kinds of birds, such as the crane, shitepoke, duck, etc., which they collected. |
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The eerie sound of the air passing through wing feathers differs with each bird, from a low treble, to a high whistle, to one sirenlike whine. |
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Judging from the steamy season 6 promo, the relationship is bound to ruffle some shippers' feathers. |
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The horizontal axis is a bicephalous serpent with mandibles made from jade that symbolize water and feathers. |
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The primitive man initially used berries, nuts, seeds, feathers, perforated stones, teeth, and shells as ornaments. |
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Tight faceting suggests plumage, but those feathers could be forged of sheet metal. |
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I remember the motion of the feathers on that sparrow's wings from the moment I typed this poem for publication in a mimeograph newsletter. |
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We assigned scores of 0 to missing feathers, and scores of 1.0 to newly replaced feathers with flakes of sheathing at their base. |
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The tragopans are horned pheasants with short bills and tail feathers that are shorter than wing length. |
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Instead she merely watched him and admired how the sun reflected off his opaline and topaz colored feathers. |
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Trochilines often have iridescent feathers of metallic red, orange, green and blue. |
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One of four species of vulture found in Europe, bearded vultures earned their name from a small tuft of dark feathers below their beaks. |
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He had been dressed in a jacket trimmed in red feathers and decorated with intricate beadwork. |
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The majority of studies on melanin ornaments cited in Table 1 measured only the size of discrete patches of melanic feathers. |
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The Persian tiara was more similar to a truncated cone, without the horns and feathers but more jewels, and a conic-shaped tip at its top. |
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There are also bridal accessories such as tiaras, head dresses and jewellery, as well as a large selection of 2003 feathers and hats. |
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The red sash of royalty is made of net work, and thrummed with red and yellow feathers. |
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The parrot was thriving and got very fat but it was running short on feathers. |
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The star of the exhibition is Fuzzy Raptor, a meat-eating dinosaur covered in small, delicate feathers. |
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She wore a cloak about her shoulders that was piled with what looked like swan feathers. |
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The men wear a horned headdress with a tall tuft of feathers and a fringe of cowry shells dangling over their faces. |
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In all cases, we obtained wax extracts from flight feathers, predominantly primaries and secondaries. |
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One or more additional layers of shorter feathers may overlie the proximal parts of the flight primaries and secondaries. |
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The strongly iridescent colors of bird feathers are produced by arrays of melanin granules in the barbules of feathers. |
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The barbules are the tiny feather tip structures that come off of barbs on either side of the central stem of peacock feathers. |
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Bird feathers illustrate optimum design, with their interlocking barbs and barbules resulting in a strong yet extremely light structure. |
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Modern feathers evolved through the stages involving elongated scales that became broken up into barbs and barbules. |
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Downy barbs that were initially sampled from the base of these feathers had microscopic characters that consisted of very long barbules. |
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When they first hatch, young hummingbirds have few feathers and cannot thermoregulate. |
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Black feathers sprout from her head and, like the bird, she is masked with bits of torn fabric bound around her eyes. |
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The nest is either a simple scrape lined with a few twigs and feathers or a large stick nest in a tree. |
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Raja was just 3-weeks-old, bald with no feathers, when he brought him home. |
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Hence, the possession of feathers is unique to birds and defines all members of the class Aves. |
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Occasionally, a bird fluffs feathers and wings in a short flight, before returning to the field of perpetual avian motion. |
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He will be black, not the tawny colour of the female with her beautiful long kookaburra-like, chevron-marked tail feathers. |
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The European Commission yesterday ordered a ban on all imports of birds and feathers from Turkey amid new fears over avian influenza. |
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Until recently, feathers were the quintessential feature of avians, associated only with flight. |
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This applies to explanations for the evolutionary origin of avian feathers and avian flight. |
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The shop Goya on Calle Jimenez sells toad talismans, owl feathers, stone amulets, candles, gems, and soaps. |
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In May, a processing plant in Carthage Missouri began turning turkey guts, feathers, blood and carcasses into an oil alternative. |
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The white extends out the wings, but the primaries, secondaries, and tail feathers are mottled black-and-white. |
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Boldly dressed in black, brown, and white, males boast long, sharp tail feathers and dazzling display plumage. |
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We then averaged measurements from the right and left tail feather for both original and induced feathers. |
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We assessed the age of birds based on the shape of their outer tail feathers. |
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Its tail and flight feathers are black, and its back and head are dark brown. |
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As part of the preening process, the birds rub a natural oil, which is secreted from a gland at the bottom of their tails, over their feathers. |
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Traces of luminous iridescent blue on his back and sides, even on the sail feathers, highlight the otherwise golden image. |
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This shows the Medici device of a diamond ring with two feathers, as on the Valencian lustred vase in the British Museum. |
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They are supported by patinated bronze bases formed as peacock feathers inset with lustred favrille glass balls. |
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Three plump blackbirds, made all the plumper by the cold-weather attitude of their feathers, sat in a ragged row. |
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This was how, he believed, lungs originally arose in a lungless world, and feathers in a featherless one. |
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About half a mile away, starlight finally hit it, revealing a sleek chestnut brown body with ruffled russet red tail feathers. |
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Do not shy away if the bird hisses at you and fluffs up its feathers, it is only bluffing. |
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The next design was in a flat dish surrounded by birch twigs, asparagus fern, ostrich feathers and white sisal. |
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I know I've stepped over the line and should probably smooth her ruffled feathers. |
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I muttered darkly, not liking the fact that he so easily smoothed my ruffled feathers. |
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I think this upset him a bit and I had to smooth his ruffled feathers via email. |
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A little lie would indubitably make things all better, smooth Jake's ruffled feathers, and make everything in my life shiny again. |
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He shook his head and laughed in merriment as if to smooth Big Freddie's ruffled feathers. |
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It's this snobbish attitude toward work place interaction that ruffles my feathers. |
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We seem to have at last ruffled their feathers and could be a force to be reckoned with. |
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I felt that I'd ruffled his feathers up enough for the day, or at the very least a few hours. |
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It's been a difficult week for the committee that devised the rules, but not one that ruffled their feathers unduly. |
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Was Hannity trying to ruffle Jensen's feathers, knock him off balance in order to get him to react in anger? |
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The birds become lethargic, with a staggered gait, their feathers are ruffled, and the comb and wattles turn dark red or blackish. |
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It would just sit there, ruffle its clipped wing feathers and continue its neurotic seed shovelling and beak swinging. |
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He stares at me with beady eyes, occasionally ruffling his feathers and tilting his head from side to side. |
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There were the gaudily plumed roseate spoonbills, their bright pink feathers glowing when they passed between my hide and the rising sun. |
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The chickens are coming home to roost and even the inflated stock market is having a hard time avoiding the flurry of feathers. |
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The EU yesterday banned the import of live birds, poultry meat and feathers from Romania for at least six months. |
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It was much larger than it had first appeared, and had dark red and blue feathers covering its limp body. |
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In less than two seconds the Portal was open, a perfect circle, limned eerily by writhing feathers of blue coronal discharge. |
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Among the coelurosaurians, the subgroup of maniraptorans evolved true broad feathers on their limbs. |
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He feathers the stage with his tap-dancing, which is of the light-footed fusillade school. |
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It also has a tiny beak with a large gape, surrounded by stiff feathers called rictal bristles, which help the bird catch its aerial prey. |
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The fossils indicate the wings had feathers, arranged in a similar pattern to that of modern birds. |
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He attached a single martingale to a colorful bridle with a bundle of myriad feathers on the forehead of the animal. |
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The parrot, which is still missing, has red tail feathers and a blue plastic ring on his foot and answers to the name of Monty. |
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He would feel her pulse, chafe her wrists, apply restoratives and smelling salts, burn feathers under her nose. |
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The Ancona's feathers are black, some being tipped white, giving the bird a pretty mottled appearance. |
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Originally known as Black Leghorns, Anconas have lustrous black feathers, some tipped with white, giving a beautiful mottled appearance. |
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Fairy-wrens build domed nests of grass and bark fibre, lined with soft down from zamia palms, banksia wool or feathers. |
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In addition to communicating through song, larks will raise the crest of feathers in their head during agonistic and courtship displays. |
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Contour feathers lapped over the transmitter, concealing its presence and preserving the bird's hydrodynamic profile as much as possible. |
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The excellent fossil remains of feathers from the several specimens of Archaeopteryx are remiges and rectrices. |
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It has pure white body feathers except for the black alulae, primary techrices and primary remiges. |
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The Otago University's registrar, Augustus Hamilton, had pieced together a skeleton of the extinct bird and even added feathers. |
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He had wrapped the ends of the arrows with green cloth and strips of leather, and trimmed the feathers so that they aligned perfectly. |
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When dry, their feathers do not conduct electricity, but their wrists and wing bones do. |
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I'll have to settle for anything in feathers and sequins, as long as it has a proper wow factor. |
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Gorgeous woven korowai are adorned with feathers from kereru, peahen, pukeko and pheasant. |
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A korowai cloak made with kiwi feathers was draped around the shoulders of the 27-year-old when he arrived at the Supreme Court building. |
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Moments earlier he was presented with a traditional, ceremonial coat, a korowai made of flax and kiwi feathers. |
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When I released it this morning, it merely hunched on the ground beneath a woolly bush, its feathers fluffed up, and grey as the overcast day. |
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The initial lining is made of fine grasses and bark, and then a second lining of feathers, wool, or other animal hair is added. |
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Although their habitat is warmer than that of emperor penguins, king penguins have four layers of feathers and huddle together for warmth. |
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It had just a few little wispy feathers growing out of it, which made it look even more eerie. |
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His are fantasies with hanging beads and wisps of feathers and leather straps as thin as ribbon. |
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With a three-foot wingspan and two long, streaming tail feathers, these birds are easy to recognize. |
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The crow preened its feathers and took wing again, gliding away into the trees. |
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Among the tissues preserved in the paper shales are delicate feathers, flower parts, hair, insect wings, and scales. |
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Birds have feathers, which are unfeeling structures, whereas the pterosaur's wings were made entirely out of skin. |
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Swans are caught and their wings' flight feathers are clipped, or pinioned. |
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In fact, it reminded me of a pintail duck in the way its primaries, the ten outermost feathers of the wing, seemed to do all the flying. |
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The male's body plumage is glossy black, and the wings and tail feathers are white. |
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Besides having forelimbs that resemble the wings of modern birds, the animal sported long feathers from thigh to foot on each hind limb. |
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Very graceful it was too, like a blue bird of prey but without feathers or wings or talons or any other bird features, come to think of it. |
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Anhimids are strong, soaring flyers with the big wings and substantial feathers necessary for that lifestyle. |
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The feathers on their wings and tails are bright blue with white and black bands. |
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The airy feathers on her wings bristled suddenly, and she turned an alarmed glance to the ceiling. |
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Head pieces also came to be called aigrettes if they had other feathers in them. |
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Strictly, the exoskeleton is restricted to keratinous elements such as horns, nails, claws, hairs, feathers, etc. |
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A plasma blast tore past him, close enough that he caught a whiff of burnt feathers. |
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Asymmetrical patches of growing feathers were considered adventitious replacement and not scored as molt. |
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He also was very adept at picking up on people's weaknesses and teasing them, ruffling some feathers. |
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Rather than packing a sad about the apparent diss, she said she was happy to ruffle the singer's feathers. |
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Nests are open cups made of weeds, grass, plant fibers, and moss, with a lining of fur and feathers. |
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When a Swazi princess weds a Zulu king, she wears red touraco wing feathers around her forehead and a cape of windowbird feathers and ox tails. |
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That ruffles feathers on a council whose performance most Monday nights, let's be honest, will fix the insomnia that's troubling you in a jiffy. |
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Male asities enlarge their wattles when they display to females and their outer primary feathers produce a buzzing sound when they fly. |
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When the quills begin to loosen, the bird removes them and is then ready to care for the new feathers. |
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The instinct is to jam on the brakes, but the driver who best feathers the brakes and corners smoothly will be the one winning. |
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Only warm-blooded animals have an insulating body covering, such as hair or feathers. |
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Hand-crafted objects are made in wood, leather, horn, metal, stone, mineral, clay, cloth, and feathers. |
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She is winged, and her feathers, mane and tail are all colors. |
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Male has grey plumage with silvery flight feathers and rusty vent. |
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Are these feathers legitimate, or is the whole thing an abnormity? |
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Hepplewhite is most associated with pierced and shield-back chairs often with wheels, lyres, or Prince of Wales feathers, and painted or japanned work of gold on black. |
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We may now return to the Calle Pureza, and the waster that is a variant of Type II, that is to say with the diamond and feathers, but with a plant motif in the center. |
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In the spring, the male attracts females by gobbling, puffing his feathers, spreading his tail, swelling his face wattles, and drooping his wings. |
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Gangly yet beautifully coloured with its bright indigo feathers, glossy black wings, and vivid red beak and legs, the pukeko is a member of the same family as the weka. |
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Her long, dark hair flew out behind her like a raven's feathers. |
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It takes a lot to ruffle my feathers, but they really get on my wick. |
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In medieval Europe, scribes used trimmed feathers from the wings of large birds and various inks to mark a set of alphabetic letters on parchment skins. |
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The problem with using baited feathers is that invariably the fish will spin as you reel them in, especially if you pick up an occasional pouting as well. |
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It had nothing to do with demonstrating how the genetic information coding for feathers could have arisen in the imagined reptilian ancestors of birds. |
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Let us consider first the simpler explanation of a series of morphological evolutionary changes in the evolution of avian feathers from reptilian scales. |
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The 18-year-old strutted down the runway Monday in an edgy, off-the-shoulder, red-and-black tweed ensemble accented with feathers. |
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Above, the king, protected by Isis, makes the offering of his anaglyph to Khonsu, who now wears the feathers that are more characteristic of Montu. |
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After all, it's easy to be an angel if nobody ruffles your feathers. |
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Spilling from the old vehicle were hippies of all eras decked out in tie-dye and top hats bejeweled with feathers and beads. |
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A group of ducks were bobbing off to the right, dipping their heads beneath the surface and returning seconds later, with beads of water rolling off their waxy feathers. |
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Then it stood tall, unfolding its wings to their full fan of circle and began to shimmer the wing feathers, so that they scattered sunlight like jewels. |
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Burlesque artists are often in it for the costumes, spending what they earn on fabric, feathers, and crystals. |
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He plucked them and flushed the feathers carefully, so as not to block up the toilets and draw attention. |
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This is misleading for everyone, and particularly offensive to those who have earned the honor of wearing their feathers. |
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I wear a floppy bonnet with peacock feathers and whisper Hail Marys under my breath until noon, when I break for snacks. |
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A woody hillside, populated by my pet chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl, trying to find their missing feathers. |
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This year, the artists showcased their talent with birds for a theme competition, each displaying the delicate feathers of every bird, from eagles to loons. |
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They think this high profile meeting in London will ruffle his feathers. |
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All of this speculation has clearly ruffled Parker's feathers a little. |
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His sequined catsuit strutting beneath a bubble coat dusted with feathers had the audience applauding with approval. |
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Sons Justin, 12, and Conor, 9, plan to spend most of the day fishing for trout, using their homemade poles and flies fashioned from chicken and sage grouse feathers. |
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The male differs greatly from the female in colour, and in the form of its tail, which is lyrate, or has the outer feathers longer and curved outwards. |
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Of the many sexually selected male traits now recognized, some of the classic examples most often cited are the elongated tail feathers of a number of bird species. |
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My husband and I were wandering through the city one slow summer Saturday, when suddenly there was an avalanche of music, colour, satin, sequins, balloons and feathers. |
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One by one, live birds are hung by the feet on a moving line of hooks called shackles and mechanically stunned, decapitated, and scalded to remove the feathers. |
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No one is quite sure how these cells differentiate to form structures as diverse as the elastic outer layer of skin, the stiff scales of fish, or the softness of feathers. |
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The massive and gaudy tail feathers of the Peacock are the tetrices or coverts, the retrices are brown and relatively short and are used to support the fan. |
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I am currently using turkey feathers to fletch with, after spending half a day on a commercial turkey farm plucking wing feathers as the birds went into the slaughter house. |
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Stretch was a bald chicken that Moose had plucked all the feathers off. |
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Sometimes birds will get feather mites and all their feathers will get eaten away by the mites and the birds are bald until they grow in new ones. |
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A collection standout was a strapless nude dress, covered in feathers and Swarovski jewels. |
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The male blackbird resumed his perch, his inky feathers drying in the bright sun as he continued his vigil. |
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Critics of the theropod hypotheses usually advocate a thecodont origin of birds, an aerodynamic origin of feathers, and an arboreal origin of flight. |
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If no later birds had evolved, Archaeopteryx would be classified as a feathered theropod, assuming we understood feathers in the absence of birds. |
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Careful brushstrokes detail a beady eye, feathers, beak and claws. |
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The fleur-de-lis symbolizes France, where the unit saw its first combat experience during World War I, while the feathers denote the conflicts in which the unit participated. |
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The girl looked at her surroundings and became aware for the first time that around her were dead birds of unknown species, naked of their feathers. |
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The latter was given in full war paint and feathers, to the music of native drums and was accompanied by the usual brandishing of tomahawks and scalping knives. |
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In both pattern books and extant artifacts, quilted feathers resemble the gadrooned edgings of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century furniture and fine metalwares. |
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The feathers on the metatarsals were lost on the back wings. |
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Digestive tonic properties and early experimental findings that its long-term use promotes the heart and vascular system are other feathers in the cap for this herb. |
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Her range of styles is unified by her use of shells, seeds and feathers. |
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Chinese fan history dates back to ancient times when feathers and leaves were utilized to provide shields from sunshine or were woven as tools for cooling. |
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The gamekeeper contracted bird fancier's lung, a serious disease contracted from working in a closed environment with the birds' feathers and droppings. |
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Some traditional shamanic headgear had animal hides, plaits, and feathers, particularly in East Sapmi. |
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Common natural fibres for rope are manila hemp, hemp, feathers, linen, cotton, coir, jute, straw, and sisal. |
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Closer to the body, those feathers have a ribbonlike shape but no central shaft. |
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Generally, the gills are rather like feathers in shape, although some species have gills with filaments on only one side. |
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Because feathers are often associated with birds, feathered dinosaurs are often touted as the missing link between birds and dinosaurs. |
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Wales play in scarlet jerseys, white shorts and green socks, with the jersey sporting the Prince of Wales's feathers as their official badge. |
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Carla Dove and her team will identify remains, using samples of blood, feathers, skin, and snarge collected and sent to the lab. |
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After surgery, the birds in the transmitter group spent more time preening tail feathers than those in the control and celiotomy groups. |
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Feathery flower spikes develop in June, similar to Celosia, also known as Prince of Wales feathers. |
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We defined a scoter nest as a depression with either down, eggs, or contour feathers identified as White-winged or Surf scoter. |
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George was half through a hole in the fence losing many feathers to Red, who was trying to help him back into the pen. |
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Some sources state that cormorants have waterproof feathers while others say that they have water permeable feathers. |
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Any good undercover agent ruffled a few feathers in the front office, and Jake more often than not upset the entire henhouse. |
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All of her outfits are made from recycled fabrics onto which she embroiders and tie-dyes and adds feathers, sequins and beads. |
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Here, fourhanded Visnu is seen seated on Garuda who has a human body with curly hair and leaf-like feathers. |
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All cormorants have preen gland secretions that are used ostensibly to keep the feathers waterproof. |
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Pack contains threading pom poms, striped chenille stems, glitter chenille stems, EVA foam sheets, wiggly eyes, feathers, foam shapes. |
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The Atlantic puffin burrow is usually lined with material such as grass, leaves and feathers but is occasionally unlined. |
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The white primary flight feathers contrast with the black wing tips and dark secondaries. |
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The Italian Bersaglieri light infantry regiments wear a distinctive wide brimmed hat decorated with black capercaillie feathers. |
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Larger than a willow warbler, with silvery-fringed wing feathers, its name comes from the Greek for yellowish. |
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Structural origin of the brown color of barbules in male peacock tail feathers. |
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The body feathers are dark grey to dark brown, while the breast feathers are dark metallic green. |
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Their quill feathers are not soft like those of other owls, so they make a swishing sound as they fly. |
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More spectacularly, the end of Protoarchaeopteryxs tail sported a fan of feathers that are vaned, suggesting the presence of barbules. |
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The bride's birdcage veil, made by her mother, consisted of Russian veiling and ostrich and coque feathers adorned with a silk peony and pearls. |
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I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their travelling habits. |
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Suddenly I feel myself become small as a swanling, tucked into the swan's feathers. |
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The feathers strip off much more easily and cleanly while the bird is yet warm. |
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He is high as a kite on Fair Trade espressos and spitting feathers that Ted Nicholls is apparently having some sort of comeback. |
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I was just about spitting feathers. My throat was so dry and sore that I could barely feel my own tongue. |
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Individuals have a subcutaneous fat layer, dense down and tightly overlapping feathers that help them withstand low temperatures. |
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The gift was much appreciated by four legs and feathers including red pandas, sakis, spider monkeys, lemurs, chimps and macaws. |
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From the fifth week they are covered in dark brown feathers flecked with white. |
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The crest is a Cornish chough, and Cornish choughs holding ostrich feathers are found as supporters. |
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But the favorite pet was Grandfather's myna, a lively bird with rich brown feathers and a yellow bill. |
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Nests are concealed by low vegetation, and may be lightly lined by weeds, grass, or feathers. |
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Owls belonging to genus Asio are known as the eared owls, as they have tufts of feathers resembling mammalian ears. |
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He worked out that the sound was created by placing out two tail feathers at 90 degrees to the direction of flight. |
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In living birds, the remaining caudal vertebrae are fused into a further bone, the pygostyle, for attachment of the tail feathers. |
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They have dense plumage with a large preen gland for waterproofing their feathers. |
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The upper wings have pale primary patches, and the primary flight feathers are also paler when viewed from below. |
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During spring, barring on the underwings and flight feathers is a better indicator of a young bird, due to wear on the upperparts. |
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More rarely, yarn may be spun from camel, yak, possum, musk ox, cat, dog, wolf, rabbit, or buffalo hair, and even turkey or ostrich feathers. |
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The chick's downy coat of feathers formed almost immediately to keep it warm. |
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Americans used this right to transport products such as flour, tobacco, pork, bacon, lard, feathers, cider, butter, and cheese. |
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All 3 African birds in this group have long outer tail feathers, racqueted in C. spatulata. |
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Then there are the phobes whose fear of birds is combined with a fear of feathers, pteronophobia. |
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The probable source of the failure was the mass of feathers in the intake manifold. |
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The feathers are waterproof, which allows the birds to spend long periods in water. |
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Warriors bore wooden or animal hide shields decorated with feathers and animal skins. |
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When feather fluffing, they contract their muscles to raise their feathers to increase the air space next to their skin. |
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Common ostriches have developed a comprehensive set of behavioural adaptations for thermoregulation, such as altering their feathers. |
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The common ostrich is farmed around the world, particularly for its feathers, which are decorative and are also used as feather dusters. |
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In 2016, it was reported that a dinosaur tail with feathers had been found enclosed in amber. |
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Wild birds impact many human activities while domesticated birds are important sources of eggs, meat, feathers and other products. |
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The blade emerges from the water square and feathers immediately once clear of the water. |
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Kings and chiefs sometimes went into battle wearing helmets adorned with eagle feathers. |
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Tennis balls were originally made of cloth strips stitched together with thread and stuffed with feathers. |
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Bird skins are prepared by retaining the key bones of the wings, leg and skull along with the skin and feathers. |
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Certain species of passerines have stiff tail feathers, which help the birds balance themselves when perching upon vertical surfaces. |
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Emperor penguins have four overlapping layers of feathers, keeping them warm. |
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Though ye haue lien among the pots, yet shall yee bee as the wings of a doue, couered with siluer, and her feathers with yellow gold. |
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The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them. |
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When we evacuated they said it was a bird strike and I saw blood and feathers along the fuselage. |
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The rockhopper penguin has distinctive feathers around the eyes, giving the appearance of elaborate eyelashes. |
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First, the dull coloration of their feathers can render them almost invisible under certain conditions. |
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Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers to line the nest, but feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different. |
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Tripods, keister and loud talk don't make a pitchman any more than do fine feathers make fine birds. |
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Owls can struggle to keep warm, because of their lack of waterproofing, so large numbers of downy feathers help them to retain body heat. |
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The feather adaption that allows silent flight means that barn owl feathers are not waterproof. |
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The surface of the flight feathers is covered with a velvety structure that absorbs the sound of the wing moving. |
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The male black grouse's tail feathers are a traditional ornament for hats in areas such as Scotland and the Alps. |
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They soon develop feathers and can fly shortly before they are two weeks old. |
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Birds initially developed wings and feathers as a means of heat regulation. The use of wings for flight is an example of exaptation. |
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House sparrows sleep with the bill tucked underneath the scapular feathers. |
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The male is duller in fresh nonbreeding plumage, with whitish tips on many feathers. |
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This is used while preening and helps in plumage maintenance by reducing bacterial degradation of feathers by feather bacilii. |
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They also tend to drop the tail feathers when preyed upon or under traumatic conditions, probably as a distraction mechanism. |
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The rawhide bow guard was laced up inside, trimmed with silver buttons, feathers, and paint. |
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The body feathers have dense, fluffy bases and are loosely attached to the skin, hence they drop out easily. |
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The tail has a black band on the end and the outer web of the tail feathers are margined with white. |
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In 2000, two researchers in Italy reported that droppings from the giant noctule bat contained bits of bird feathers. |
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Persecution by anglers and to provide feathers for fishing flies were common in earlier decades, but are now largely a thing of the past. |
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The scapular feathers are elongated and the feathers at the base of the neck are also somewhat elongated. |
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The waxwings are a group of passerine birds characterised by soft, silky plumage and unique red tips to some of the wing feathers. |
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The dens are usually lined with moss plants, thistledown, dried grass, and feathers. |
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These items were often ornamented with quills and bird feathers, and men sometimes wore the scalps of enemies. |
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Tail brown tipped broadly with white, outermost feathers white with brown outerweb. |
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In the 19th century, the hunting of seabirds for fat deposits and feathers for the millinery trade reached industrial levels. |
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This dense plumage is better able to protect the bird from getting wet, and cold is kept out by a dense layer of down feathers. |
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In New Guinea, mountain hunters target the black sicklebill and birds of paradise, which are prized both for their showy feathers and as food. |
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However, compared to land birds, they have far more feathers protecting their bodies. |
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For example, eagles, hawks and their feathers have great cultural and spiritual value to Native Americans as religious objects. |
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The badge, inspired by the Prince of Wales's feathers, has three white feathers adorning the centre of a disc with the Flag of St David on. |
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As the logo of the WRU, the Prince of Wales' feathers are also represented in one of the quarters of the British and Irish Lions' badge. |
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The prince also used badges of one or more ostrich feathers in a number of other contexts. |
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It wasn't the first feathered dinosaur discovered, but it was the first tyrannosaur ever found with primitive feathers. |
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The Prince of Wales's feathers is the heraldic badge of the Prince of Wales. |
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Nestlings are covered in pale buff down feathers, shading to whitish on the belly. |
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In the early 20th century, razorbills were harvested for eggs, meat and feathers. |
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The hoatzin is a very colorful bird with a blue head, a tuft of feathers standing up on the head, and an orange iris in the eye. |
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Body or contour feathers cover down feathers to provide a smooth and waterproof surface. |
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This species has a horizontal stance and the tail feathers are slightly longer in the center in comparison to other alcids. |
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In 1853, a woman wearing a dress made of cormorant feathers was found on San Nicolas Island, off the southern coast of California. |
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The badge, known as the Prince of Wales's feathers, consists of three white feathers emerging from a gold coronet. |
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Willamette Wildlife Rehabilitation volunteer Susannah Lindquist holds a rock dove while director Reta Anderson works to remove foam insulation from its feet and feathers. |
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He wore a magnificent overrobe of iridescent green silk, embroidered with orange feathers and gold starbursts along the hem and sleeves and neckline. |
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Of particular note have been the fossils of the Yixian Formation, where a variety of theropods and early birds have been found, often with feathers of some type. |
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The wings are long and broad, suitably shaped for soaring and gliding flight, and have the unusually large number of 30 to 35 secondary flight feathers. |
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The Audubon Society was started to protect birds from the growing trade in feathers in the United States while the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds began in Britain. |
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Large birds exhibit several remigial replacement strategies detectable within a year and between years by wear patterns, contrasting feather appearance, and retained feathers. |
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Oil spills are also a threat to seabird species, as both a toxin and because the feathers of the birds become saturated by the oil, causing them to lose their waterproofing. |
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The peafowl is considered sacred in Hindu mythology and is portrayed as a carrier of deities, and its ocellated tail feathers appear in many religious symbols. |
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A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele, the feathers, and the head. |
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Tips of maribou feathers are used whole for the wings of streamer flies. |
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As they preen, birds may ingest the oil coating their feathers, irritating the digestive tract, altering liver function, and causing kidney damage. |
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In order to prevent the ravens from flying away, their flight feathers are trimmed so that they cannot fly in a straight line for any appreciable distance. |
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The feathers making up this disc can be adjusted to sharply focus sounds from varying distances onto the owls' asymmetrically placed ear cavities. |
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