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A wing-clipped Meyer's parrot perching on a drawer handle. While clipping is endorsed by some avian veterinarians, others oppose it. [7]By restricting flight, wing clipping may help prevent indoor birds from risking injury from ceiling fans or flying into large windows, but no evidence shows that clipped birds are safer than full-winged ones, only that clipped birds are subject to different ...
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.
The Clearwing Skyblue is similar but with a blue body and white wings. The body colour is a little brighter in tone than the corresponding normal. [1] The wings and mask carry pale grey shadows of the normal markings and spots. In the best show birds these are quite faint, but nevertheless are still clearly visible.
Cut a piece of kitchen twine and tie the legs together at the drumstick ends. Take another piece of twine, loop it under the bird's body across the tucked wings, and tie securely.
The Greywing is an autosomal mutation of the dil locus with the symbol dil gw, and so is a member of the multiple allelic series which also includes the Dilute (dil d) and Clearwing (dil cw) mutations. [8]
All pied budgerigars are characterised by having irregular patches of completely clear feathers appearing anywhere in the body, head or wings. Such patches are devoid of the black melanin pigment and show just the ground colour—yellow in green-series birds and white in blue-series. The remainder of the body is coloured normally.
The red kite soaring.. This is a list of soaring birds, which are birds that can maintain flight without wing flapping, using rising air currents.Many gliding birds are able to "lock" their extended wings by means of a specialized tendon.
In the non-Opaline the wings show dark grey or black markings over a yellow or white ground, but in the Opaline the ends of the barbs of the wing coverts assume the same colour as the body, rather than the ground colour. This suffusion of body colour in the wings produces the opalescent effect which gave the mutation its name.