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Peacock tail feather. The conservation and restoration of feathers is the practice of maintaining and preserving feathers or featherwork objects, and requires knowledge of feather anatomy, properties, specialized care procedures, and environmental influences. This practice may be approached through preventive and/or interventive techniques.
The Indian peafowl ( Pavo cristatus ), also known as the common peafowl or blue peafowl, is a peafowl species native to the Indian subcontinent. It has been introduced to many other countries. Male peafowl are referred to as peacocks, and female peafowl are referred to as peahens, although both sexes are often referred to colloquially as a ...
Flabellum. A flabellum (plural flabella ), in Christian liturgical use, is a fan made of metal, leather, silk, parchment or feathers, intended to keep away insects from the consecrated Body and Blood of Christ and from the priest, [1] as well as to show honour. The ceremonial use of such fans dates back to Ancient Egypt, and an example was ...
Peacock fans nationwide are still recovering from the news.Peacocktober has fallen.NBC unveiled Peacocktober in October 2021, Peacock’s second Halloween season of existence in the world.
Pygostyle describes a skeletal condition in which the final few caudal vertebrae are fused into a single ossification, supporting the tail feathers and musculature. In modern birds, the rectrices attach to these. The pygostyle is the main component of the uropygium, a structure colloquially known as the bishop's nose, parson's nose, pope's nose ...
Caudipteryx (meaning "tail feather") is a genus of small oviraptorosaur dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Early Cretaceous, around 124.6 million years ago. They were feathered and extremely birdlike in their overall appearance, to the point that some paleontologists suggested it was a bird.
Afropavo congensis. Chapin, 1936. The Congo peafowl ( Afropavo congensis ), also known as the African peafowl or mbulu by the Bakôngo, is a species of peafowl native to the Congo Basin. [2] It is one of three peafowl species and the only member of the subfamily Pavoninae native to Africa. [3] It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List.
Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light instead of pigments, although some structural coloration occurs in combination with pigments. For example, peacock tail feathers are pigmented brown, but their microscopic structure ...