Sentences with phrase «tail feathers of»

I ask for them to send me the wing and tail feathers of the birds that would otherwise be thrown away.

Square Enix put a good effort forward, but other big companies either weren't showing their mobile line - up or just showing off their latest attempt to catch onto the tail feathers of Puzzle & Dragons [Free].

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Brad Felger, founder and CEO of Airstrike Bird Control, has had a self - described love for everything with feathers, scales or tails since he was 12 years old.

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?»

I cut wings out of felt and glued a rainbow feather boa on it as a tail.

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

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

Researchers from China, Canada, and the University of Bristol have discovered a dinosaur tail complete with its feathers trapped in a piece of amber.

Professor Mike Benton from the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, added: «It's amazing to see all the details of a dinosaur tail — the bones, flesh, skin, and feathers — and to imagine how this little fellow got his tail caught in the resin, and then presumably died because he could not wrestle free.

The researchers say the specimen represents the feathered tail of a theropod preserved in mid-Cretaceous amber about 99 million years ago.

In the adult, those structures appeared along the end of its tail; in the juveniles, the feathers appeared along the neck and upper arm in one individual and near the pelvis and foot in the other.

If we do that, if the timing and position are correct, we should be able to manipulate lots of different kinds of morphologies — feathers, wings, teeth, tails.

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.

The Daohugou Biota makes an immense contribution to our understanding of vertebrate evolution during this period, with such notable creatures as the oldest known gliding mammal, another early mammal that may have swum with a beaver - like tail, the oldest dinosaurs preserved with feathers, and a pterosaur that represents an important transitional form between two major groups.

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.

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.

Wing lice dine on the same fluffy feathers but spend most of their time on the wings or tail, where they hide in between barbs on the birds» large flight 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.

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.

«The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!»

The fossil has traces of crest - like feathers on its tail but was not preserved well enough to show signs of flight feathers.

It had been thought that Jeholornis only had feathers at the tip of its tail, spread out like a palm frond and largely useless for flight.

With a continuous surface, he says it could generate more lift than the feathers along the tail of the most primitive bird, Archaeopteryx, making it more useful for flight.

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 fossils clearly show a small dinosaur that had flight feathers covering its legs, as well as tail and arms, forming an extra pair of wings never before seen by palaeontologists.

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.

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.

In 2008, the feathers caught the interest of Christopher J. Clark of the University of California, Riverside, who has analyzed how male hummingbirds make their tails whine and whir as they flirtatiously dive - bomb 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.

Its official name, Calliphlox evelynae lyrura, honored the (somewhat) lyrelike curve and length of the far left and right feathers in its tail.

«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.»

The majority of Californian Anna's Hummingbirds appear to have P. huitzilopochtlii feather mites on their tail flight feathers, according to a study published February 14, 2018 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Youki Yamasaki from Washington State University, U.S., and colleagues.

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.

A PIECE of feathered dinosaur tail was trapped in amber and preserved for almost 100 million years.

«It's amazing to see all the details of a dinosaur tail — the bones, flesh, skin and feathers — and to imagine how this little fellow got his tail caught in the resin, and then presumably died because he could not wrestle free,» says Mike Benton at the University of Bristol, UK.

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

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

Now a section of a dinosaur's tail, complete with feathers, has been found trapped in a piece of amber.

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.

► 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!