Sentence examples for fine plumage from inspiring English sources

If he ever did make a place for himself in Hollywood, he said, it would be as an African-American man with fine plumage.

There is a wide variety of birdlife, which includes wild duck, the white and the royal heron, the urraca (which has a blue breast and a gray head and is known for its call, resembling a scoffing laugh), the blue jay, and many more, some of which have fine plumage.

In the screech owl, the juvenal plumage has fine barring, unlike the streaking of the adult.

"The Last September," based on Elizabeth Bowen's 1929 novel about the twilight of the Anglo-Irish gentry, takes place in and around a great stone country house, bounded by acres of parkland and peopled by inwardly seething, outwardly decorous folk who dress in fine, faded late-Edwardian plumage and who speak -- my goodness, how they speak.

These feathers break down to produce a fine powder, which is distributed to the plumage with the bill in preening.

The vast majority were lapwings: looking rather tatty in their post-breeding plumage, but still providing a fine spectacle as they took to the air and wheeled around nervously whenever they were disturbed.

Placed side by side, the two bands seem similarly preposterous in their plumage; it's such a fine line between the Stones' sympathy for the devil and Tap's return to Stonehenge.

In herons and some hawks the tips of the plumules disintegrate into a fine scaly powder that becomes distributed over the plumage, providing protection against wetting and giving it a peculiar sheen; accordingly, these specialized down feathers are called powder down.

Some birds, in which the gland is small or absent, have a specialized type of feather (powder down) that grows continuously and breaks down into a fine powder, believed to be used in dressing the plumage.

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The white plumage strongly suggests adaptation of SP to the white fine sandy beaches [4] [6].