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Toucans are mostly covered with feathers, but underneath that is skin.
Animals can be covered with fur or feathers or scales or naked skin. It depends on what animal you're talking about.
A bird's legs are covered in the same soft scales as a reptile's skin, so it has the same texture as snake skin. This is because birds are very closely related to reptiles. A bird's feathers are made of the same material.
The body covering on birds is considered the feathers, or plumage. Birds do have skin under their feathers, but their feathers are the outermost covering that protects their bodies.
Dolphins are covered in skin. See link for more.
Toads have warty skin, no scales, no fur, no feathers.
they are characteristics of animals
scales
Actually yes. While the chickens body is covered with feathers, the legs are scaled just as their ansestors were. If you look at a roosters legs you will see fine scales. Many breeds also have scaling around the beak.
Reptiles are covered in scaly skin (not scales), while amphibians are covered in a moist skin.
Feathers and skin
Snakes have skin that is covered in skin.