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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.
For example, bird specimens that have been badly damaged by pests may be repaired with a mixture of synthetic fabrics and wheat starch. This mixture is used to infill areas of loss and feathers are replaced where possible with a wheat starch paste adhesive. In addition to infilling, taxidermy specimens may require structural repairs.
When preening, a bird (such as this red lory) draws individual feathers through its beak, realigning and re-interlocking the barbules.. Preening is a maintenance behaviour found in birds that involves the use of the beak to position feathers, interlock feather barbules that have become separated, clean plumage, and keep ectoparasites in check.
Investigators say they have found evidence of a bird strike on a passenger plane that crashed in South Korea in December, killing 179 people. The feathers and blood stains on both engines of the ...
Wing clipping is the process of trimming a bird's primary wing feathers or remiges so that it is not fully flight-capable, until it moults, sheds the cut feathers, and grows new ones. This procedure is usually carried out by avian veterinarians, breeders, or the bird's owners, and primarily on pet birds like parrots.
A feather from a long-extinct New Zealand bird has set a record after selling for $46,521 NZD (about $28,400 USD), the auction house handling the sale has said. World’s most expensive feather ...
Bird colours (1 C, 21 P) F. Featherwork (22 P) ... Conservation and restoration of feathers; Covert feather; Crest (feathers) D. Delayed feathering in chickens; Down ...
The grey crowned crane - an example of a crested bird species A restoration of the dinosaur Anchiornis, showing the crest of feathers on its head. The crest is a prominent feature exhibited by several bird species on their heads.