plumage

How To Use plumage In A Sentence

• This is their winter plumage, and some of them are already in it. Times, Sunday Times
• Bitterns are virtually invisible as their plumage provides perfect camouflage.
• Their plumage is a plain, streaky brown. Times, Sunday Times
• Male peacocks have beautiful plumage.
• The members of Eurylaiminae are variable in their plumage; the wattled broadbills have an eye ring of large blue wattles.
• The bright plumage of a parrot made it beloved by people.
• In Florida, cruel men shoot the mother bird. on their nests while they are rearing their young. because their plumage is prettiest at that time. Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography
• The order mammalia is the resultant of a primary sex-distinction developed by natural selection; but the gorgeous plumage of the peacock's tail is a secondary sex-distinction developed by sexual selection. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
• The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the shrubs or lesser trees of ane forest, as the puissant pikes, arranged in battalia behind them, correspond to the tall pines thereof, yet, nevertheless, are not altogether so soft to encounter as the plumage of a goose. A Legend of Montrose
• Although terns are closely related to seagulls, sharing a general black-and-grey pattern of plumage with their cousins, they have slim silvery bodies and deeply forked tails.