Sentence examples for flight feather from inspiring English sources

Body and flight feather molt was observed in Guánica State Forest beginning in fall (September), with flight feather molt completed one to two months later and the body molt completed in mid-winter (January) (J. Toms, personal communication).

Once he gently disentangled a bird from the net, Dr. Evers would stretch out its wing and count down to the 11th flight feather.

(2 – 6) Five females collected between 1 and 17 August had largest follicles between minute and 3 mm, possibly indicating approach of second laying period; body molt; and extensive flight feather replacement (dropped, growing, and new primaries, secondaries, and rectrices).

Exaptations come in many flavors from an abstract ability, as proposed by Tattersall, to a physical structure (e.g., a flight feather).

The hindlimb feathers "don't look like insulatory feathers to me: They're really long, they overlap the same way flight feathers do, and the fact that they curve is a characteristic flight feather feature".

To finally nail this down, when Dr Hudon and his colleagues examined flight feather replacement in northern flickers caught by the bird-banding station at Manomet, in Massachusetts, they were able to infer that these aberrantly colored yellow-shafted flickers on average acquired the unusual red pigment in early August.

Flight feathers are light weight engineering structures.

Also used in classification are the numbers of flight feathers.

Line around the eye and outer flight feathers of wings, black.

The flight feathers are blue above and olive below, and the tail is blue and red.

The tail and flight feathers are grayish, with a brown back.