Sentences with phrase «primary flight feathers»

But owners often neglect to clip their wings or fail to notice that their bird's primary flight feathers have re-grown.

This group of feathers, the primary flight covert, will serve as a guideline for where to snip the primary flight feathers.

Leaving one or two of the longest feathers (for aesthetic reasons), you want to trim off the next five to seven primary flight feathers on each wing.

Starting from the wing tip and moving in toward the birds body, the primary flight feathers will be the first group of long feathers on the underside of the wing.

You want to trim her primary flight feathers.

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.

Not exact matches

By trimming the bird's primary feathers, known as «flight feathers,» they can not take flight.

A female shot at Isla Guadalupe at the end of June was moulting its primary remiges (flight feathers) and unable to fly.