flight feather

Ducks and grebes for instance, shed all their flight feather at once and so actually become totally incapable of flight for several weeks.

The little owl had lost several vital flight feathers and was facing death without the imping operation, which is not usually carried out on wild birds.

As is true of almost all owls, finely fringed flight feathers produce nearly silent flight, allowing an owl to sneak up on unsuspecting prey.

Unlike most birds, ducks lose all of their flight feathers at once, rendering them flightless for a month or so.

To wing-clip a pigeon, extend a wing and clip off the ends of the longer flight feathers, which are the biggest feathers extending back.

Upon studying the fossilized hatchling, scientists deduced that it already had a full set of flight feathers. This reinforces the idea that enantiornithes birds hatched from the egg ready to fly.

If you clip your chicken's flight feathers to keep them in your yard, you will need to do it again after they molt.

It was observed that the flight feathers on an owl's wing have a downy covering, which resembles a forest canopy when viewed from above.

I coax your flight feathers, cascadethem open, see the gradient of the cobalt coverts to your turquoiseflight feathers.

"Although it has damage to its flight feathers, there doesn't appear to be any broken bones and I am hopeful it will make a full recovery.