Sentence examples for feather colour from inspiring English sources

Through breeding the feather colour out of the bird, before long, a white became standard.

Since melanosome density and shape partially determine feather colour, the fossils provided a method for estimating the colour of fossil feathers.

A similar investigation conducted by Quanguo Li of the Beijing Museum of Natural History and colleagues mapped the feather colour patterns of a Late Jurassic basal paravian theropod.

In this study, we have shown that a mutation of MLPH is also associated with feather colour dilution in quail, but that the mutational event is extremely different.

Greater covert and tail feather colour (chroma and hue) were correlated, suggesting genetics and/or individual quality played a role in pigment deposition.

An additional file presents the data set comprised of breeding data, isotope signatures and feather colour scores used in analyses [see Additional file 2].

The irony being that all of these niche feather colours and varieties are mutations of the original bronze turkey.

The intensity of colouration in carotenoid-based plumage colours is most likely dependent on the quantities of carotenoids deposited in the feathers, and yellow plumage colour (mainly measurements of chroma) correlates positively with carotenoid content in several bird species (great tits [ 32], greenfinches, [ 49], American goldfinches Carduelis tristis [ 50]).

However, alternate plumage colour did not vary with the δC signatures of greater covert feathers of yellow warblers from either Revelstoke or Inuvik.

But it's also to give it a different type of feather, other colours.

Individual identity being irrelevant, everyone who plays with them is shrouded in disguise: tonight that means glittering gold masks, paisley-print robes, keffiyeh, dunce caps, curtain fringing and ostrich feathers the colour of jewels.