Sentences with phrase «a tail feather»

For the most part they ignored us and we never bothered them, except I did give myself permission to stroke their tail feathers while they were nesting.

Numerous cultures in SE Asia are changing with the times and accepting molted tail feathers from endangered hornbills species maintained in zoos instead of harvesting / killing them in the wild so that they can meet their cultural / religious needs without killing off the species... why can't this Native American tribe do the same?

So you can imagine my surprise when, nine months later, I pulled into the carport one chilly April evening and my headlights illuminated a mama flycatcher perched in the very same corner of the carport with her tail feathers in the air and frazzled look that plainly said: «Where's my nest, Bitch?»

However, it is bad form for a roller to «twizzle» by trying to touch its tail feathers with its beak.

If desired, you can also draw... MORE some other details, such as the tail feathers.

SING ON Acoustic cameras reveal how male Costa's hummingbirds can aim the sound produced by fluttering tail feathers during courtship dives.

There's more subtlety than humans have realized in dropping out of the sky so fast your tail feathers sing.

The need to pass genes to future generations is so critical that in some species, males put a lot of energy into generating these sex - specific features — a peacock's elaborate tail feathers or an elephant seal's massive, territory - defending body size, for example.

The male is velvety black, except his crown is yellow and red, and the inner webs of his wing and tail feathers are bright golden yellow.

Meanwhile, the tail section tilts and rotates to guide the robot left or right, analogous to the way a bird's tail feathers help with control and guidance.

Up like tail feathers, mostly horizontal and off the ground.

As they fall, stiff breezes vibrate their tail feathers, giving each species a unique whistle.

So in the new study, Clark and colleagues put tail feathers from 14 species of «bee» hummingbirds — a rowdy group that includes the Anna's hummingbird — into a wind tunnel.

The orange - throated Allen's hummingbird, which sounds a bit like a chirpy machine gun, has two sets of tail feathers that each whistle separate notes.

When his team plucked the hummingbirds» thin, outermost tail feathers, the boisterous animals became as silent as stealth bombers.

The canonical example of sexual selection, the male peacock (in this image, an Indian blue peacock) is renowned for its iridescent blue - green plumage, elaborate feather train, and iconic «eyes,» the colorful markings on its tail feathers.

Venerated by the Aztecs and Mayans, whose rulers wore headdresses made out of its long tail feathers, the bird has a bright green body, a red breast, and green upper tail feathers that conceal its tail; in males, these feathers are longer than its body.

Ecologist Thomas Smith has been gathering the feather samples for more than 2 decades; when other researchers band birds, they pull a tail feather and mail it to Smith.

Third, the birds employ the odd strategy of molting and replacing all their tail feathers simultaneously at a time when they are also replacing the primary flight feathers on each wing.

So what happens when a molting Hooded Warbler loses all its tail feathers while it is still feeding nestlings or fledglings?

Humans make music just as beavers build dams and peacocks show off their tail feathers, he reasoned, so music must have evolved.

Males who use their long, elegant tail feathers to attract mates now have less stuff to strut: Their tails are short, probably deformed by radiation.

Zhou's group examined 11 Jeholornis fossils with preserved tail feathers and found that four had both aerofoil - like fans up to 10 centimetres long at the base of their tail and frond - like tufts of feathers at the tips.

The find makes Jeholornis unique, as it combines an ancestral long tail with a fan of feathers at its base that resembles the tail feathers of modern birds, says Zhonghe Zhou of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing.

But right now, its five tiny black tail feathers are splayed out indignantly like a miniature Indian headdress.

A team led by Jian Zi of Fudan University in Shanghai examined peacock tail feathers using both an optical microscope and a scanning electron microscope.

A flashy little hummingbird in the Bahamas could get upgraded to full species status, thanks to research that began with noise - making tail feathers.

When a male Lawes's Parotia shakes a tail feather, the ladies and the physicists take notice.

Across all the species, the mite was more prevalent on the tail feathers of males (44.9 percent) than on those of females (36.2 percent), possibly because of the nesting habits of females.

They found that there tended to be more mites on the hummingbirds» outer tail feathers than inner, and saw that mites often nestled between the barbs of individual feathers, sometimes in high numbers.

SOUNDS GOOD When peacocks shake their tail feathers, they make low - frequency sounds that attract peahens.

«Majority of Anna's hummingbirds may have feather mites on their tail feathers: Tabletop scanning electron microscopy enabled analysis of P. huitzilopochtlii distribution in situ.»

Each exquisitely preserved specimen has the telltale traits of a modern bird: fan - shaped tail feathers, highly fused bones at the ends of the wings, and the U-shaped wishbone familiar to anyone who has carved a roast chicken.

The changing hues of a peacock's splendid tail feathers have always captivated curious minds.

Emperor chicks normally have a grayish down coat with dark wing and tail feathers, a dark bill and feet, and rings around their eyes.

«Darwin's female - choice theory has become the foundation for explaining the presence of exaggerated secondary sexual traits in many males, such as the peacock's tail feathers,» says evolutionary biologist Rama Singh, an author of a paper in the journal PLOS ONE that explains the findings.

Changyuraptor preserves a full set of feathers covering its entire body, including exceptionally long tail feathers and a long bony tail.

The researchers believes that the new discovery explains the role that the tail feathers played during aerodynamic behavior such as gliding or flying.

An international research team including Stony Brook scientist Alan Turner detail how Changyuraptor yangi helps explain the role of long tail feathers in flight evolution

Punctuating their displays with swishing, hooting and popping sounds, males bob their heads, fan their tail feathers, raise their wings, and expand and contract distinctive yellow air sacs to compete for females» favor.

For this study, the researchers attached small cameras to the tail feathers of 19 wild crows.

But because the research model's stubby, bird - like tail exists only to reduce drag, it may mean biologists need to rethink what those tail feathers really do for birds.

The dinosaur had a crest on its head, a long wing and tail feathers, but it couldn't fly.

To attract mates, male hummingbirds sing with their tail feathers.

Sagittarius rules the hips and thighs, and this energizing new moon may send us straight to the dance floor to shake a tail feather.

Flaunting its bodacious tail feathers, a peacock perches on a pedestal.

Makes me want to shake my tail feathers.

Saturday night, I made the decision to dress up like this, and drink this huge margarita, then, go here to a White Party, and shake my tail feathers until well past 1 am.

► Two men with shotguns find wild turkeys and we see and hear the flash - bang of gun shots in a close - up of a rifle barrel; the two men both shoot, one man kills a turkey off - screen and we see him carrying the body of the turkey (a ball of feathers and tail feathers) away from the camera.

George Miller's strange - but - charming Happy Feet theorizes that if a papa penguin drops the egg, it won't kill the chick inside, as was so fervently, memorably anfd heartwrenchingly noted in March of the Penguins... it'll just rattle his innards, turning him into a mildly eccentric potential social outcast who can't sing like the rest of his breed, but can shake his tail feathers like Fred, Ginger AND Bojangles!