How To Use Tail feather In A Sentence
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Scientists are especially concerned over the fate of many cloud-forest birds, such as the resplendent quetzal, with its streaming tail feather, and the three-wattled bellbird, so named for its patented clanging call.
The Forest In The Clouds
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Without a doubt, the best wagglers are made from the tail feathers of the peacock.
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This similitude of marking between the rectrices and subcaudals renders the distinction between these two kinds of feathers less sharp than in many other Gallinaceans, and the more so in that two median rectrices are considerably elongated and assume exactly the aspect of tail feathers.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
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The female's plumage is overall gray-brown and the male appears similar, although he has orange-yellow combs over the eyes and light gray tail feathers.
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It's easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers.
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We saw woodpeckers, a remote airplane in flight, and a peacock with its tail feathers fanned!
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Izzy is described as a green parakeet with an orangey-red ring around his neck, a big, red beak with a black moustache and 28-inch tail feathers.
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The peacock displayed its fine tail feathers when it noticed any gay colours.
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Some males also have elegant ornamentation such as bright throat gorgets, crests and elongated tail feathers.
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It is believed Smith was the last person to have seen the now-extinct huia, whose tail feathers were used by Maori chiefs as a symbol of their mana.
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In some species, males have courtship displays which may involve feather fluffing, holding the wings out, shaking them, and raising the tail feathers.
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It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather resides in you wand, gave another feather...
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Male has white tips to outer tail feathers and three white spots on outer wing quills.
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Some males also have elegant ornamentation such as bright throat gorgets, crests and elongated tail feathers.
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This rabbit has no time to squeal, for Freya has it, and is mantling it, sheltering it beneath widespread wings, even her black tail feathers, with their white base and band, spread apart to hide it from our gaze.
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As a result, while human hair can look shiny clean, it can never achieve the brilliance and radiant coloration of a peacock's tail feather.
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Also distinguished by their long, erectile, iridescent tail feathers, which they spread at every opportunity
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Most studies trying to identify the function of external tail feathers in the barn swallow have focused on males; much less attention has been paid to females.
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He had shot an eagle, he said, turned his head to show the tail feather in his hatband.
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It's easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers.
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A manic mix-up of Gallic musette, American blues, gypsy jive and gin mill boogie-woogie, their sound may not be futuristic but it will trigger that primitive urge to shake a tail feather.
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In effect, a long-tailed widowbird is saying, "I've got so much to offer that I can waste a lot of energy on these magnificent tail feathers.
Discover Blogs
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A bird needs wings for lift, tail feathers for control and lightweight bones.
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The politically (and anatomically) correct term is pygostyle -- literally rump post -- for the structure of fused vertebra that anchors the turkey's magnificent tail feathers (rectrices) and also harbors the uropygial gland, source of preen oil, the yummy fat the bird uses to groom its plumage.
Cold Turkey
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It's easily recognised by its bright blue tail feathers.
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There is even the prospect that the human intellect might be a by-product of sexual selection, comparable to the peacock's flamboyant tail feathers.
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The male's body plumage is glossy black, and the wings and tail feathers are white.
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This involves the male of the species puffing his chest up, spreading his tail feathers widely and dragging it on the ground as he chases young females round.
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Its shape has a little to be like a pigeon, but the neck is shorter, sharp- tongued hook song, tail feather curl.
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It is pleased when others look at the eyes on its tail feathers; it pulls them all together in a cluster for this purpose.
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The effect makes me think of a dark peacock which opens its tail feathers to reveal rich, vibrant colour.
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Don your boas, tail feathers and most decadent style as the electro-rock duo thrill with a night of glam.
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I admired the apple green plumage on its chest that flowed into the fiery orange tail feathers and wing feathers.
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I plucked the outer right rectrix (tail feather), thereby inducing the growth of a replacement.
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A barn owl's body feathers are mostly for warmth, while the wing and tail feathers are used for flight.
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Each peacock tail feather possesses a central stem with an array of barbs on each side.
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The male has beautiful tail feathers.
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The male has beautiful tail feathers.
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At the edge of an undeveloped patch of land we even managed to spot a magnificent turkey gobbler with his tail feathers spread in a massive fan, a visual treat in the middle of the city.
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The male motmot performs a pendulum-like display, swinging the racket-shaped tail feathers from side to side, and calling a low, resonant 'woop-woop-woop' in perfect time to the swings.
Wondrous Feathers
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Male peacocks shed and re-grow tail feathers each year.
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Their heads, sides and necks are grey, and their backs, wings and tail feathers olive green.
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Reader, falconer, and birder Stacia Novy, in the military in Honduras, sent a photo of herself with the central tail feathers of a motmot that she picked up.
Wondrous Feathers
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Many have paler underparts than upperparts and barred underwing and tail feathers, a patterning that may make them less visible to prey.
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We're just peacocks flaunting our tail feathers.
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Hemisquilla californiensis – magnified view of a uropod, or tail feather, of mantis shrimp.
Hemisquilla californiensis - The Panda's Thumb
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It has been suggested that this decline in territorial aggression may be because large flight and tail feathers were growing at this time and would be easily damaged in a fight.
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A barn owl's body feathers are mostly for warmth, while the wing and tail feathers are used for flight.
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And for a dashing touch, he plucked a tail feather from his rump , which left him feeling rather cross.
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At Gubbio, verdigris poplar is found in the papagallo's tail feathers: at Urbino it appears in the duke's monogram.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Hemisquilla californiensis by Mike Bok — magnified view of a uropod, or tail feather, of mantis shrimp.
Photo Contest Vote: Animal - The Panda's Thumb
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Glue head feather onto head. Glue tail feather here.
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It was of a dark-brown colour, and spotted like the landrail; the tail feathers were nine in number, and twelve inches long.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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The peacock displayed its fine tail feathers when it noticed any gay colours.
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With a three-foot wingspan and two long, streaming tail feathers, these birds are easy to recognize.
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The peacock displayed its fine tail feathers when it noticed any gay colours.
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With a three-foot wingspan and two long, streaming tail feathers, these birds are easy to recognize.
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The peacock is displaying its fine tail feathers.
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About half a mile away, starlight finally hit it, revealing a sleek chestnut brown body with ruffled russet red tail feathers.
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Many have paler underparts than upperparts and barred underwing and tail feathers, a patterning that may make them less visible to prey.
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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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Red-tailed tropicbirds used to be hunted for their extraordinary tail feathers, and off the majestic cliffs of Malabar we witnessed their extraordinary aerobatic displays against the vast backdrop of sea and sky.
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Their wings are stunted, with a smaller body-to-wing proportion than in some other ratites, and, like most other ratites, cassowaries have no tail feathers.
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The politically (and anatomically) correct term is pygostyle -- literally rump post -- for the structure of fused vertebra that anchors the turkey's magnificent tail feathers (rectrices) and also harbors the uropygial gland, source of preen oil, the yummy fat the bird uses to groom its plumage.
Cold Turkey
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a subterminal band of color on the tail feathers
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It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather—just one other.
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In his Pride reserved for peacocks, it is shown statant affronty with the tail feathers spread.
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The male's body plumage is glossy black, and the wings and tail feathers are white.
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Izzy is described as a green parakeet with an orangey-red ring around his neck, a big, red beak with a black moustache and 28-inch tail feathers.
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The Queen gives an order to hold a royal celebration. The gleeful gold birds, the lucky peacocks with burny tail feather and vigorous Blue soldiers push the celebration to climax gradually.
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For example, the mean flight velocity of sunbirds with cut tail feathers was just over 3 m/s faster than that of sunbirds with uncut feathers of the same length.
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In some species, males have courtship displays which may involve feather fluffing, holding the wings out, shaking them, and raising the tail feathers.
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Emperor penguin chicks have a grayish down coat with dark wing and tail feathers, but this odd bird is all white.
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He will be black, not the tawny colour of the female with her beautiful long kookaburra-like, chevron-marked tail feathers.
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The peacock displayed its fine tail feathers.
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Examples include the crown and tail feathers of birds-of-paradise, drongos, Bristlethigh Curlew, etc.
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A bird needs wings for lift, tail feathers for control and lightweight bones.
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The tragopans are horned pheasants with short bills and tail feathers that are shorter than wing length.
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The male has beautiful tail feathers.
