In the males the head of these birds shows an impressive overhanging crest, extendeding over the bill, composed by hair-like feathers.

Entirely hidden by feathers, and also their legs are completely feathered.

There is an important corollary: women have little to lose by ruffling feathers.

Beadwork depicted a figure masked and winged, surrounded by feathers sewn to the hide.

A plucked rooster lay surrounded by flour and feathers, roots and blood.

Oil-fouled birds usually die of hypothermia caused by feathers and down losing their insulating qualities.

Nearer still, obscured by plummets and feathers of mist pouring over the hills, were masses of buildings, angular, like scattered blocks of lead.

The barn-owls' main characteristic is the heart-shaped facial disc, formed by stiff feathers which serve to amplify and locate the source of sounds when hunting.

Unlike typical Paridae, they have their nostrils exposed and not covered by feathers.

All this aroused more curiosity than the way Ms. Li, onstage, kept bending sadly backward and forward in a chair ringed by feathers.