Feathers in a sentence

Foth re-interpreted stage 2 feathers as crushed or misidentified feathers of at least stage 3, and stage 5 feathers as crushed stage 6 feathers.

Both the male and female have very bright, ginger-green upper-part plumage while the tail feathers have a metallic blue-green gloss with the outer three tail feathers (the feathers the bird uses to direct flight) on each side are white.

Because these feathers are of an advanced form ( flight feathers ), these fossils are evidence that the evolution of feathers began before the Late Jurassic.

Large flight feathers are found on the wings and tail, contour feathers cover the bird's surface and fine down occurs on young birds and under the contour feathers of water birds.

The Seahawks will have three different pants: navy blue with green feathers, gray with navy blue feathers, and white with navy blue feathers.

If you see brown body feathers, a noticeable black band on the tail and short feathers sticking up from the top of the head, it’s a ruffed grouse.

While researching feathers recently, she showed people a photo of a dress that had trimming made from ostrich feathers.

Biologists will compare the feathers’ isotopic signatures with those of feathers recovered from swan populations in northern states during the summer months.

One drink, called Professor Feathers, has a unique parrot glass with leaves sticking out the top of it to resemble feathers.

The tail booms are known as “feathers” because their function is likened to the feathers of a badminton shuttlecock.

Also called contour feathers, pennaceous feathers arise from tracts and cover the entire body.

Feathers from birds, particularly eagle feathers, were also worn in battle as symbols of prestige and for reasons similar to war paint.

Goose feathers are most commonly used; scarcer, more expensive swan feathers are used for larger lettering.

In the Berlin specimen, there are "trousers" of well-developed feathers on the legs; some of these feathers seem to have a basic contour feather structure, but are somewhat decomposed (they lack barbicels as in ratites ).

It is a washed brown on the upper parts, wing covert, secondary feathers, and tail (where it would otherwise have been gray), and white on the primary feathers and underparts.

It is traditional for male dancers to wear regalia decorated with beads, quills and eagle feathers; male grass dancers wear colorful fringe regalia; and male fancy dancers wear brightly colored feathers.

Owls’ feathers are generally larger than the average birds’ feathers, have fewer radiates, longer pennulum, and achieve smooth edges with different rachis structures.

Palaeobiology Flight As in the wings of modern birds, the flight feathers of Archaeopteryx were somewhat asymmetrical and the tail feathers were rather broad.

So it is hypothesized that the pertinent specimens moved along the sea bed in shallow water for some time before burial, the head and upper neck feathers sloughing off, while the more firmly attached tail feathers remained.

The feathers of cormorants soak up water and help to reduce buoyancy, thereby allowing the birds to swim submerged. citation Rictal bristles of a white-cheeked barbet Bristles are stiff, tapering feathers with a large rachis but few barbs.