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Flight feathers (Pennae volatus) are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired pennaceous feathers on the wings or tail of a bird;...
are specialized types of pennaceous feathers, adapted for high loadings and often strongly asymmetric for improved flight performance. Pin feather "GEOL...
layer of fine feathers found under the tougher exterior feathers. Very young birds are clad only in down. Powder down is a specialized type of down found...
Glossary of bird terms (redirect from Axillary feathers)length and stiffness of most true flight feathers. Nevertheless, alula feathers are a distinct aid to slow flight. anisodactylous Descriptive of tetradactyl...
powerful flight muscles. The vanes of each feather have hooklets called barbules that zip the vanes of individual feathers together, giving the feathers the...
Origin of birds (redirect from Origin of feathers)preserved feathers have been collected. There are even very small dinosaurs, such as Microraptor and Anchiornis, which have long, vaned arm and leg feathers forming...- Archaeopteryx (category Feathered dinosaurs)impressions of feathers. Because these feathers are of an advanced form (flight feathers), these fossils are evidence that the evolution of feathers began before...
restoration of feathers is the practice of maintaining and preserving feathers or featherwork objects, and requires knowledge of feather anatomy, properties...- bird in flight. Prior to their existence on birds, feathers were present on the bodies of many dinosaur species. Through natural selection, feathers became...
Preening (category Feathers)beak to position feathers, interlock feather barbules that have become separated, clean plumage, and keep ectoparasites in check. Feathers contribute significantly...
Microraptor (category Feathered dinosaurs)long feathers on the legs of Microraptor were true flight feathers as seen in modern birds, with asymmetrical vanes on the arm, leg, and tail feathers. As...
Confuciusornis (category Feathered dinosaurs)covered in short, non-aerodynamic feather tufts similar to the contour feathers of the body, rather than the familiar feather fan of modern bird tails. Laser...
Hummingbird (section Feather colors)tail feathers, and those same feathers could produce the dive sound in a wind tunnel. The bird can sing at the same frequency as the tail-feather chirp...
Flying and gliding animals (redirect from Animal flight)February 2024). "Functional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121 (8). doi:10...
Yi (dinosaur) (category Feathered dinosaurs)melanosomes, pigment-bearing organelles. All nine feather locations showed eumelanosomes. In the head feathers also phaeomelanosomes were present. On the membranes...
Sinornithosaurus (category Feathered dinosaurs)(barbules) that flight feathers have, which allow the flight feathers to form a continuous vane. Some scientists have suggested that the feathers might have allowed...
Owl (section Flight and feathers)head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the...
Jeholornis (section Feathers)11 tail feathers. The feathers were short and pointed, and arched away from the body of the tail, so that the entire array of tail feathers resembled...
with their eyes open and are covered with downy feathers that are soon replaced by adult-type feathers. Birds of this kind can also swim and run much sooner...
Pterosaur (section Relation with feathers)branching down feathers. These may be homologous to the down feathers found on both avian and some non-avian dinosaurs, suggesting that early feathers evolved...
- protection by concealment alone, unaided by flight, the quill feathers appear together with the contour-feathers of the body and at a much later date than
- entirely different group defined by "unreptilian" characteristics - feathers and flight. But a turkey's body and a croc's body laid out on a lab bench would
- Feathers, skeleton modified for flight. Feathers: epidermal derivative, made of keratin (like fingernails). Carpometacarpis: bears primary flight feathers