Sentences with phrase «long tail feathers»

These little birds grow to an adult size of just 12 inches, half of which is accounted for by their long tail feathers, and weigh between 75 and 125 grams.

Oranges and greens and shockingly bright blues, birds with long tail feathers or strange feather plumage sticking up from the tops of their heads.

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

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

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.

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Instead, the tail is long and flexible, with keels of feathers running down each side.

During mating season, the male grows a streamer tail, a feather train that can be up to three feet long.

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.

Although other pigments could have been present in Microraptor's feathers, they would have been largely masked by black pigments, rendering the creature crowlike in appearance (main image) except for that long, bony tail and lengthy feathers on its legs.

Like Microraptor, the new specimen had feathers on all four limbs; but its feathery tail, which takes up about 30 % of its total length, is the longest known among flying dinosaurs.

«The long bony tail of Changyuraptor and the foot long feathers it sported are unlike the short tails in modern birds,» adds Dr. Turner.

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

This crow - sized Archaeopteryx displayed a mosaic of both bird - like and reptilian features: Plumage with modern feathers, but also clawed fingers on its wings, teeth in its mouth, and a long bony tail.

Treading the line between birds and dinosaurs, the animal was a similar size to a magpie, with feathered wings, sharp teeth and a long bony tail.

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This coloring page provides a great opportunity to discuss Archaeopteryx, an extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period, which had a long feathered tail and hollow bones.

With sturdy bodies and dense «feathered» legs, impossibly long tails and thick manes flying in the wind, they look like they might just take off and fly like a fanciful unicorn.

This may be heavier around the neck and front of the shoulders, with well feathered legs and long hair on the tail which can be trimmed for neatness.

57) Longhaired German Shepherds also have long tufts or feathering on the ears, back of the legs and the tail.

Their moderately long coats have feathering on the leg and tail parts.

For long tails, the ASHGI survey indicates that the most typical tail is slightly curved with the length of feathering tapering from base to tip.

The tail is feathered and carried curled up over the back, with long hair hanging nearly to the floor.

They normally reach an adult size of about 13 inches long from the beak to the tip of the tail feathers.

Feathered tails have long, lush fur on the lower surface of the tail and are seen in gun dogs.

Adult English Setters grow long feathering on tail, forelegs, chest, hindlegs, and stomach.

The coat is smooth and silky; the feathered variety has long hair on its ears, tail, between its toes and sometimes on the backs of its legs; the smooth variety has no long feathering.

A longer coat is not appropriate for a working dog, although the tail feathering should be long, adding to the emphasis of the wagging tail.

A «long stock coat» has a long double coat (Long Stockhaar) with long, wavy, topcoat not lying closely, with undercoat, feathering on ears and legs, bushy breeches and bushy tail forming flags belong stock coat» has a long double coat (Long Stockhaar) with long, wavy, topcoat not lying closely, with undercoat, feathering on ears and legs, bushy breeches and bushy tail forming flags belong double coat (Long Stockhaar) with long, wavy, topcoat not lying closely, with undercoat, feathering on ears and legs, bushy breeches and bushy tail forming flags beLong Stockhaar) with long, wavy, topcoat not lying closely, with undercoat, feathering on ears and legs, bushy breeches and bushy tail forming flags belong, wavy, topcoat not lying closely, with undercoat, feathering on ears and legs, bushy breeches and bushy tail forming flags below.

The legs, tail, chest, belly and backs of the ears have long feathering.

The dogs have long legs, a tail that curls and is frequently feathered, and pink skin blotched with black or blackish - brown under the white coat.

In the case of a feathered Saluki, long hair is exhibited on the ears and the tail.

Other characteristics include a long feathered tail, a double coat of long hair which is shorter on the head and legs, dark almond - shaped eyes, a muscular arched neck, as slightly tapering muzzle.

A TYPICAL YEAR OLD LION DOG c. 1923 C.R. Edmonds, Farmer's Weekly, February 7, 1923) Height — 24 inches at the shoulder Weight — 60 lb Colour — Tawny, fawn or brindle Coat — short and hard Tail — Longish and thick, free from feather and carried low (Note: two breeders have advised the writer that considerable difficulty is experienced in the tail as at times varying lengths of tail occur in the same litter, some being only six to seven inches long like a docked dog, others with a kink like a Bulldog and others with long tails as descriTail — Longish and thick, free from feather and carried low (Note: two breeders have advised the writer that considerable difficulty is experienced in the tail as at times varying lengths of tail occur in the same litter, some being only six to seven inches long like a docked dog, others with a kink like a Bulldog and others with long tails as descritail as at times varying lengths of tail occur in the same litter, some being only six to seven inches long like a docked dog, others with a kink like a Bulldog and others with long tails as descritail occur in the same litter, some being only six to seven inches long like a docked dog, others with a kink like a Bulldog and others with long tails as described.

The tail curls up and over across the back and is hidden under a profusion of long, feathered fur.

One of the characteristics of Goldens is their multi-length coat, which consists of a good undercoat during the colder months, with a longer, water - repellent outer coat with heavier feathering on the chest, tail, back of thighs and forelegs.

The coat is flat, straight and of moderate length, with longer feathering on ears, backs of legs, belly, chest and tail, providing protection from briars without becoming entangled in them.

The outer coat is firm and resilient and can be straight or wavy; the legs and tail are feathered with longer hairs.

On the majority of dogs, especially if having never had their tails trimmed before, you will have quite a ragged edge of sometimes quite lengthy feathering, often much longer at the tip, and also very long at the point in this photo that my thinning shear is just beginning to come to.

The long - haired, most often referred to as the Saluki, has feathering on the legs, ears, and tail.

The long coated variety has fringed ears and a plumed tail with feathering on legs and longer hair around the neck.

The tail is fairly long and feathered and wags a lot.

The tail, long and feathered, extends beyond the hocks.

The tail and legs are feathered with longer hair.

In Europe and other places, docking is illegal so the tail is long with feathering.

The second, undesirable, but accepted coat type is long with feathering on the ears, legs, tail and toes.

This «long» coat is actually shortish on the body, with feathering restricted to ears, backs of the legs, stomach, hindquarters, and tail.

Their moderately long, silky coat should be free from curls, and there should be long feathering on the ears, chest, legs, feet and tail.

Feathering on ears, legs and tail should be long, and the feathering on the feet is a feature of Feathering on ears, legs and tail should be long, and the feathering on the feet is a feature of feathering on the feet is a feature of the breed.