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Disease - birds do not normally loose their feathers. When they change them it is called moult.Moulting is a process (like shedding in mammals) done regularly by birds, to replace old feathers with new, healthy feathers. This is normal. When a bird loses many feathers at once, it is usually due to the bird plucking out its own feathers OR a condition called French Moult, for which there is no cure.All birds may or may not lose their feathers. It is only when this happens to them and or they die.
Many many birds have beautiful feathers but one of the most common beautiful birds is the peacock.
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Yes. Birds are animals that have feathers.
Many birds have beautiful feathers. Peacock Toucan Swan Pigeon
There are no hairs on a kiwi. Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand. As birds, they have feathers, like all birds do, although these feathers are hairlike in appearance.
Ducklings are baby birds. Therefore, like many chicks, they initially have a body covering of down which are soft, fine, fluffy feathers. As they grow older, their adult feathers start to come through.
Most owl species in North America and other non-tropical areas have over 20,000 feathers. They have twice as many as other birds of prey which average about 10,000 feathers. Birds have up to five feather. Unlike most raptors, many owls have feathers on their legs and toes.
By puffing out their feathers in the cold birds create a larger insulating layer of air and feathers, which helps them retain body heat. Many mammals do the same with their fur.
Barred owls have approximately approximatly 9,200 individual feathers.
Yes, being birds, emus have feathers which are loose and shaggy.
It takes two thousand pounds of feathers to make one ton. Depending on the size of the birds from which the feathers are gathered from would determine how many feathers would make a ton.