Sentences with word «plumage»

Another plus factor in favour of this guide is the brilliance of plumage of so many Australian birds.

Ever since The Bird with the Crystal Plumage in 1970, Dario Argento's thrillers have been moving away from conventional narrative into plots of increasing absurdity, often full of red herrings, that gratify the director's delight in stylistic excess.

«We hope this encourages other researchers to examine the function of barred plumage in parasitic cuckoos and raptors the world over.»

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Birds show an amazing diversity in plumage color and patterning.

Contrary to their portrayal in popular films, dinosaurs are now widely accepted by scientists as having been covered in feathers, possibly in a range of colors, much like the colorful plumage of modern birds, which are a living dinosaur lineage.

But because so many small theropods discovered in recent years have been feathered, the possibility of plumage on larger dinosaurs such as T. rex has been hotly debated.

For centuries, long cloaks, capes, and other attire were painstakingly layered with the bright plumage of birds.

You usually picture song birds as being as beautiful in plumage as they are in their sound.

The various ground finches don't differ significantly in ways that usually differentiate bird species, such as plumage patterns or song.

The beautiful plumage of Polish chickens comes in varities of colors including black, gold, silver and buff - laced.

Dexter is an emotional - support Peacock, a huge blue - and - green plumaged bird who was being checked in at the United counter at Newark Airport for a flight to L.A. in January.

Meeting up with a mutt named Dug (voiced by Bob Peterson) who can literally speak and a richly plumaged bird named Kevin, Carl and Russell also tangle with three imposing canines, Alpha (also voiced by Bob Peterson), Beta (voiced by Delroy Lindo) and Gamma (voiced by Jerome Ranft).

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Wild turkeys are majestic creatures with spectacular plumage.

Vanessa Safavi's sculptural installation of taxidermy birds suggests a similar sense of the animal as a household object or furnishing, with their brightly coloured plumage displayed across the gallery floors.

Tufted Puffins are highly recognizable because of their breeding plumage which consists of a white face, thick orange bill and yellow eyebrow tufts.

Beta carotene, plentifully found in wild chiles, is also thought to be responsible for the bright red plumage of finches, who regularly feed on wild chiles in their habitat.

The pigeon - sized dinosaur Microraptor, which lived about 120 million years ago, probably sported glossy black plumage like today's crows, a new analysis suggests.

«The most exciting outcome would be to prove that females are ensuring the health of their offspring by choosing males with brilliant plumage.»

Their bright red, blue and yellow plumage serves as a welcoming sight.

Although blurry and pixelated, the video images reveal five diagnostic features of the ivory - billed woodpecker, including its size (as determined based on the known trunk diameter of the tree on which the bird was perched), the distinctive black - and - white markings on its wings and the white plumage on its back.

Blue Budgies are not solid blue, rather, they present blue plumage on their heads, chests, and bellies, normally with the Budgie's characteristic black spotting and striping on the head, wings, tail, and back.

The Finch often has striking plumage which is multi-colored.

 She was toting through the airport the bright peacock feather plumage weaved into a jewel encrusted crown you can see in the picture.

It is not dissimilar to plumage shown by birds — the more striking it is, the more they will be noticed by potential mates.

If she attacks a champion while under the Deadly Plumage buff, she gains a movement speed boost.

Happily, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage also stands as a superb murder mystery thriller that will excite new and old fans alike, even if you already know who the killer turns out to be.

Note the magnificent orange plumage.

Honey - eaters, for example, show little or no sexual dimorphism, and since they are the largest family in Australia — there are more than 50 of them — there is no need to show both male and female plumages.

You will notice brighter, smoother, and more vibrant plumage.

A number of illnesses, including this eye disease, make male plumage dull, which limits their chances of finding a partner.

Against Zuckerman's signature white backdrop, the birds» brilliantly coloured plumage comes to life.

(Across a large body of research on many different animals, body and facial symmetry are associated with larger body size, more pronounced sexual «ornaments» such as the attractive plumage on male birds, and better health, suggesting that symmetry could be an indicator of genetic quality.)

This afternoon you should see wandering albatross species, Northern Royal albatross, white capped albatross, Salvin's albatross, Northern giant petrel, cape petrel, Antarctic Fulmar, mottled petrel, soft plumaged petrel, broad billed prion, Fulmar prion, White chinned petrel, sooty shearwater, little shearwater, grey backed, black bellied petrel and Wilson's storm petrel.

The female's dull plumage serves to protect both the mother and her nest of eggs or offspring.

This is largely because it is not always easy to tell one political plumage from the nebulous characterology of the Ghanaian political landscape.

To prove his point, Thayer painted a peacock — Darwin's prime example of plumage used for display — fading inconspicuously into the forest.

Fabrice Helfenstein, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Bern, Switzerland, tested this by upping the parental workload of wild male great tits, Parus major — which have yellow breast plumage — by adding two extra chicks to their nests.

Every part of this ptarmigan is adapted to help it thrive in a forbiddingly frigid climate, from its feathered, snowshoe - like talons to its seasonally changing plumage to its remarkable metabolic ability to gain body mass even throughout the harsh winters of its home.

(Image) Magnificent Man United WAG Edurne Shows Off Epic Plumage.

Schaefer's team also found that German blackcaps wintering in the UK possess browner plumage on their backs, rounder wings and pointier beaks than blackcaps that migrate south.

With several colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, we were able to establish that certain key raptor dinosaurs were fully plumaged, with feathers that were entirely modern in structure.

Female birds assess paternal qualities on the basis of traits, including plumage coloration and courtship behaviour.

So researchers decided to take a closer look at duck plumage, observing feather filaments belonging to four species, including the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), under an electron microscope.

Dinosaurs butt heads, thrash their tails, and spread their stunning plumage, while ancient mammals and marine organisms make colorful cameos.

Many male birds - of - paradise employ bright colors and iridescent feathers in their mating displays — but a few species also sport superblack plumage.