flight feather

The rest of the body is purple, with red flight feathers.

Instead, these birds lose all their flight feathers at once.

These are true flight feathers as seen in modern birds.

He pumped them, and the flight feathers caught hold of the air.

Flight feathers begin to emerge on the young at nine to 11 days.

Only the head, tail and the flight feathers should be so colored.

They were simply too small with too few flight feathers.

There are dark bars on the flight feathers and tail.

The white patch on the primary flight feathers is also smaller.

Flight feathers are also used by some species in visual displays.

The flight feathers are brilliant white crossed by a black bar.

By 12 weeks they are trying out their newly sprouted flight feathers.

The flight feathers are thinly barred with a black edge.

The long wings have black markings on the flight feathers.

When perched a small amount of black can be seen in the wings, these are the flight feathers.

The moult of the flight feathers may be spread out across the year.

The flight feathers are blackish-brown with light brown or white border.

They have 13 flight feathers, no tail, just a small pygostyle.

Usually, they are not flight feathers, but resemble body plumage.

The flight feathers and upperside of the tail are blue.

She landed several miles away without breaking more than some of the flight feathers in one wing.

Then he got into the craft and reached out to roll the rocks off the six flight feathers.

The flight feathers, tail, feet, bill are all black.

In addition both groups have a reduced tenth primary (one of the flight feathers).

Scientists have not yet determined the function of all flight feather modifications.