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A duck with angel wing A Muscovy duck with angel wing. Angel wing, also known as airplane wing, [1] slipped wing, crooked wing, and drooped wing, [citation needed] is a syndrome that affects primarily aquatic birds, such as geese and ducks, in which the last joint of the wing is twisted with the wing feathers pointing out laterally, instead of lying against the body.
Cyrtopleura costata, or the angel wing clam, is a bivalve mollusc in the family Pholadidae.It is found in shallow parts of the northwest Atlantic and also in the North Sea of Scotland coastline and west coast of the Adriatic Sea by a remote area in the Marche region in central Italy, living in the seabed, where it digs its burrows on a very slow revolving movement for years through soft sand ...
A video, taken by Crombie’s friend, shows the precise moment thousands of starlings fleetingly appear as one, a curved, winged form reflected in the water below. A flurry of camera shutter ...
An angel wing is a bird-like wing on an angel, a kind of supernatural being in mythology, especially christianity. Angel wing or Angel wings may also refer to: Angel wing, a syndrome that affects aquatic birds in which the wing feathers pointing out laterally; Angel Wing (Glacier National Park), a mountain in Montana, US
Examples of long distance bird migration routes Migrating birds face many perils as they travel between breeding and wintering grounds each year. Migration is a dangerous part of a bird 's life cycle, with many trade-offs; birds receive benefits from wintering and breeding in better quality habitats , at the price of higher predation risks and ...
Pinioning is the act of surgically removing one pinion joint, the joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body, to prevent flight. Pinioning is often done to waterfowl and poultry. It is not typically done to companion bird species such as parrots. This practice is unnecessary and restricted in many countries.
AS is a random, equal-opportunity syndrome that affects approximately 1 in 15,000 people, and presents itself primarily as extreme neurologic impairment. AS affects both sexes and all races equally.
In broken-wing displays, birds that are at the nest walk away from it with wings quivering so as to appear as an easy target for a predator. [ 13 ] [ 25 ] Such injury-feigning displays are particularly well known in nesting waders and plovers , but also have been documented in other species, including snowy owls, [ 20 ] the alpine accentor ...