coot
wings and feathers
Contour feathers are long, strong, and smooth, while down feathers are soft and fluffy. Contour feathers give birds their coloring and shape and are used in flight. Down feathers provide a layer of insulation.
Black and white
Two functions are to help aid in flight (only for flight feathers) and to provide an insulation for the bird against the hot and cold weather.
You need to clip their feathers at least every two months. You clip only a bit of their feathers and DON'T GO INTO THE BONE OR ELSE...
Creatures with feathers and webbed feet include ducks, geese and other waterfowl such as the Australian moorhens and swamp hens.
Definition: The outer layer of feathers that cover a bird's body, wings, and tail and give the bird its characteristic appearance. Contour feathers differ from other body feathers (such as down and semiplumes) in that they consist of two vanes along a shaft that have interlocking barbs that give strenght and structure to the feather shape
That the bird flying overhead is starting to go bald.
Two black birds had a rough time last night.
Both parents were heterozygous (Bb). The offspring would statistically be: BB, Bb, Bb, and bb. All but the bb offspring would be black and the bb would be brown.
Turkeys have many types of feathers such as beard, crest, ear tuft, flight covert, fluff, lesser sickles, main tail feathers, muff, neck hackles, primary flights, saddle, scapular, secondaries, sickles, tail coverts, vulture hocks, wing bar, and wing bow coverts.
just fight and say hey and there u go two bodys!:)