Sentence examples for soft plumage from inspiring English sources

Like all owls, the tawny has incredibly soft plumage, enabling it to hunt in virtual silence.

Pigeons have dense and soft plumage, the region in the vicinity of the eye often being bare.

The owls form a homogeneous group readily distinguished from all other orders by their general body plan, soft plumage, and skeletal peculiarities.

It is characterized by its flat head, wide mouth fringed with bristles, large eyes, and soft plumage that results in noiseless flight, and it is about 30 cm (12 inches) long.

Members of the order Caprimulgiformes are easily recognized by their extremely wide mouths, large eyes, short legs and small, weak feet, and, except in the oilbird, soft plumage, in which browns and grays predominate.

Rita, allowed up, gently buried her nose in the woodcock's soft plumage, in rapture.

The genus name Bombycilla comes from the Greek bombux, "silk" and the Modern Latin cilla, "tail"; this is a direct translation of the German Seidenschwanz, "silk-tail", and refers to the silky-soft plumage of the bird.

A juvenile can be distinguished by softer plumage, a brownish tinge to the black on its head and the grey on its back, and a duller, greyish-yellow skin patch behind the eye.

During the molt the soft, rufous-brown plumage on the underparts was replaced by a compact brown plumage that resembled an adult female (Mallet-Rodrigues et al. 1995).

The soft, buffish-brown plumage, wispy crest, black throat, yellow tip to the tail and the red dots on the wings – like sealing-wax, hence the bird's name – are simply unique.

Juvenile birds have similar markings to adults but have softer and brownish plumage overall, although the white band on the tail is narrower.