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flight feather

NOUN
  1. any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird

How To Use flight feather In A Sentence

  • The flight feathers are black, and the upper tail coverts and rump area are cobalt blue.
  • Archaeopteryx was a true bird, because it had a birdlike skull, perching foot, fully-formed flight feathers, a modern-looking elliptical wing, a furcula and avian lung design.
  • They feel safer there when they have shed their flight feathers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Except for the flight feathers on wings and tail, the top third of hummingbird feathers lack barbicels and hamuli. Birdology
  • That suggests that our captive SY birds molted their juvenal flight feathers on a schedule similar to that of Tufted Puffins in the wild.
  • To withstand the force of the oncoming air, a flight feather is shaped asymmetrically, the leading edge thin and stiff, the trailing edge long and flexible.
  • He trimmed the flight feathers to various lengths, and made them run up slopes of different slopes and textures.
  • But by extending the range in 1 yard increments, the technique, including in-flight feathering of the spool, becomes completely natural, and automatic.
  • Does the discovery of asymmetrical flight feathers on the forelimbs and hind limbs of dromaeosaurs affect the debate about the evolution of avian flight.
  • They feel safer there when they have shed their flight feathers. Times, Sunday Times
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