How To Use Flight feather In A Sentence
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The flight feathers are black, and the upper tail coverts and rump area are cobalt blue.
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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.
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They feel safer there when they have shed their flight feathers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Except for the flight feathers on wings and tail, the top third of hummingbird feathers lack barbicels and hamuli.
Birdology
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That suggests that our captive SY birds molted their juvenal flight feathers on a schedule similar to that of Tufted Puffins in the wild.
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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.
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He trimmed the flight feathers to various lengths, and made them run up slopes of different slopes and textures.
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But by extending the range in 1 yard increments, the technique, including in-flight feathering of the spool, becomes completely natural, and automatic.
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Does the discovery of asymmetrical flight feathers on the forelimbs and hind limbs of dromaeosaurs affect the debate about the evolution of avian flight.
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They feel safer there when they have shed their flight feathers.
Times, Sunday Times
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With few exceptions, only adult birds were observed to molt their flight feathers in a symmetrical pattern.
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They feel safer there when they have shed their flight feathers.
Times, Sunday Times
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With few exceptions, only adult birds were observed to molt their flight feathers in a symmetrical pattern.
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Blackish-brown feathers run from the tips to the primary feather (one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing) tectrices.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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On its long wings now replete with shiny new flight feathers it was having some difficulty steering a course in the stiff breeze.
Times, Sunday Times
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The name waxwing is due to the scarlet ornaments at the tips of the lesser flight feathers and some of the tail feathers, which resemble bits of red sealing wax, but which are really the bare, flattened ends of the feather shafts.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
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They feel safer there when they have shed their flight feathers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its tail and flight feathers are black, and its back and head are dark brown.
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Male has grey plumage with silvery flight feathers and rusty vent.
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But Archaeopteryx was very likely capable of powered fligh sic judging from its relatively massive furcula and the asymmetric rachis of its primary flight feathers Feduccia and Tordoff 1979; Olson and Feduccia 1979.
Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb
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In contrast, a flight feather has narrow barbules which do not cover the barbs.
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Swans are caught and their wings' flight feathers are clipped, or pinioned.
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The underwings are two-toned: silvery flight feathers with black wing-linings.
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That suggests that our captive SY birds molted their juvenal flight feathers on a schedule similar to that of Tufted Puffins in the wild.
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Adult Western Sandpipers molt flight feathers following each southward migration, and then perform northward and southward migration on those feathers.
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Because all the known theropods were terrestrial predators, he suggested that the flight feathers must have elongated in the context of insect traps and were later preadapted for flight.
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On its long wings now replete with shiny new flight feathers it was having some difficulty steering a course in the stiff breeze.
Times, Sunday Times
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The specimen from Massachusetts was an after-hatching-year bird with newly acquired basic plumage and fully developed and unworn flight feathers, indicative of early molt.
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But Archaeopteryx was very likely capable of powered fligh sic judging from its relatively massive furcula and the asymmetric rachis of its primary flight feathers Feduccia and Tordoff 1979; Olson and Feduccia 1979.
Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb
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It had complete plumage with fully developed flight feathers and a large wishbone for the attachment of strong muscles for the downstroke of the wings.
Modern Science in the Bible
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In all cases, we obtained wax extracts from flight feathers, predominantly primaries and secondaries.
