Sentence examples for feather colors from inspiring English sources

He said they were merely following in the footsteps of Sir Isaac Newton, who first suggested some 300 years ago that the peacock feather colors might be caused by structural coloration.

"Feather colors produce the most beautiful tones.

"You can see a surface of beautifully packed together melanosomes," said Richard Prum, a Yale expert on feather colors.

One Sense of Fashion merchant, Francesca Audelo, who started a line of vintage- inspired hair accessories called FancyThat in Los Angeles, regularly polls her customers on everything from feather colors to favorite styles.

Last January, Bobby mated with a new female, named Rosie for her feather coloring.

In every case, the color of the lice on the bird's body matched its feather color.

A year ago, Canadian paleontologists described some of the first examples of feather coloring in the age of dinosaurs.

The researchers found, however, that lice in one area where it's hard to preen — on the head — did not necessarily match feather color.

The lice on all the birds' heads tended to be dark regardless of feather color, leading Dr. Bush to believe that darker lice may have an evolutionary advantage.

Sexual drive, not flight, may have been the main reason for the feather color and pattern of Microraptor, a four-winged dinosaur that lived some 130 million years ago in what is now northeastern China.

With each new hatching, you pick out the birds with the qualities you want to see more of (feather color, say, or meat quality, or temperament), and they become your breeders.