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"plumage" Definitions
  1. the feathers covering a bird’s body
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Despite Gatter's sample's strange plumage, the DNA was virtually identical.
Male peacocks are justly admired for their brilliantly colored plumage.
It's like the plumage-flourishing mating dance of an exotic bird.
Standing out is hardly a matter of preening or flaunting plumage.
There are plenty of birds out there with brightly colored plumage.
The birds have white plumage, often with black barring, and yellow eyes.
But the vibrant yellow plumage of Workman's backyard bird is incredibly uncommon.
Their chicks don't have enough fat and plumage to survive icy environments.
Does Synthesis depict the plumage of a peacock or chimeric alien foliage?
His parrots display plumage, fashion, and intelligence, mixed with aristocratic unself-consciousness.
It's called Peacock, a reference to the network's avian plumage-inspired logo.
They painted the decoys' beaks yellow, the wingtips black, the plumage white.
Pale Male, named for his unusually light-colored plumage, arrived in 1993.
Here in their roost, a flock of culture vultures paraded their plumage.
Overall, the plumage of the fossil wings closely resembled that of modern birds.
Their diet is your curiosity, and their luring plumage is gold and gems.
Plus, they are getting their mating season plumage and are too funny looking!
Meanwhile, Norwich's metaphorical canary is brave, plucky and ready to ruffle some plumage.
Brian Knox of New Hampshire has some gorgeous specimens with geometrically patterned plumage.
The hue of his plumage transitions seamlessly from molten red to sunshine yellow.
The aggressive plumage and swagger of the young critic has fallen away — mercifully.
The people of Qaf might not appreciate his plumage as they ought to do.
Men are trying to indicate that they are still marketable procreators — it's like plumage.
Scientists are eager to understand the plumage differences between birds and these feathered dinosaurs.
The event also includes a photo contest that features fancy plumage from across the globe.
Females are about two thirds that size and sport a more muted chocolate-brown plumage.
If Rakan is nearby when Xayah activates Deadly Plumage, he'll also gain the ability's effects.
Sinosauropteryx's plumage pattern suggests it lived in an open habitat 130 million years ago (artist's impression).
Two peacocks in a pod, he and Trump, and what ghastly plumage they showed on Tuesday.
"He was a visitor favorite; displaying his pure white plumage for all to see," the tribute continued.
This oil helps clean and protect the bird's plumage, but also contains a delicate bouquet of scents.
It has been difficult to scroll through Twitter without seeing a photo of his magnificent multicolored plumage.
The fowl's vibrant plumage recalls the dress of government bureaucrats centuries ago, called mandarins in the West.
The fowl's vibrant plumage recalls the dress of government bureaucrats centuries ago, called Mandarins in the West.
They took notice of its brown plumage, its white head and tail and its large, hooked beak.
Although Vaughan had flowered through the language of bebop, it was just one feather in her plumage.
Among birds, meanwhile, analysis of the largest order (passerines, or song birds, which are 60% of bird species) showed that the proportion of specimens of a species that were male was directly related to how showy that species' male plumage was compared to the plumage of its females.
However, putting plumage on the adult T. rex is still considered by some to be an inferential leap.
Layered and stiff, their feathers are more reminiscent of an iguana's crest than of a bird's soft plumage.
From an office decorated with the mounted plumage of two owls, young workers rent out kayaks and bicycles.
All the details were visible, from the feathers in their plumage to the creases on their thin legs.
To further complicate matters, their plumage varies not only with the seasons, but also between adults and juveniles.
There are comic riffs as well on poultry plumage, a kind of critter couture in Ms. Rossellini's view.
Now, the vegetables are coming into shape, the spots of bright orange flowers visible amid the green plumage.
The answer will be familiar to anyone who studies deer antlers or peacock plumage: It's all about the ornaments.
Aviary is a stunning, often-melancholic multi-disciplinary project that keeps us coming back because of its layered plumage.
If Xayah attacks an enemy champion while empowered by Deadly Plumage, she'll gain a short burst of movement speed.
If he preserves their Premier League status, he will be reincarnated as a silky black magpie with magnificent plumage.
Along with the primitive plumage, the 99-million-year-old amber also preserved soft tissue and eight complete vertebrae.
LOS ANGELES — Who needs a "Plus" or a "Max" when you can use the plumage of a colorful bird?
Without breeding plumage or a mating season, there are no obvious indicators as to whether someone is into you.
Trump, with his insinuation that Obama may be a covert ISIS sympathizer, is exhibiting the paranoid style in full plumage.
No, beauty gurus aren't taking actual plumage to their brows, Insta beauty stars are brushing their brows to resemble feathers.
He speed-walked to catch up with a knowledgeable volunteer, then trailed him closely, inquiring about the belted kingfisher's plumage.
Theodore Roosevelt's beloved Pelican Island in Florida, where exotic birds were being slaughtered for their plumage until he stepped in?
For a long time scientists thought the spikes, plumage and fur characteristic of these groups originated independently of each other.
Their plumage had the hypercrispness of pattern, the hypervividness of color, that you can normally experience only by taking drugs.
Famous for their resplendent, pink plumage, greater flamingos are a thriving species found in most warm regions throughout Africa and Eurasia.
But the rest, though they could not fly, nevertheless seem to have had patterns in their plumage, just as birds do.
The Feast Roasted peacocks, "served in their own plumage" were once on the menu in the early centuries of the monarchy.
I froze as he dropped down into the scrub and the gray morning light revealed his handsome cascade of brown plumage.
Swans may look harmless — regal, even — but beneath that snowy white plumage they're basically just the thugs of the avian world.
He was decked out in the male plumage of Madison Avenue — the dark suit, the mane of hair, the easy confidence.
Paleontologists from the University of Bristol in England deciphered the dinosaur's coloring by analyzing the preserved plumage from three Sinosauropteryx specimens.
Cultural evolution, in other words, is generating conformity in the same sort of way that biological evolution does when the plumage of a male bird has to conform to female expectations of what a male looks like if that male is to mate successfully, even though the particular pattern of his plumage brings no other benefit.
Others welcomed bird-lovers, who liked to suspend their pets in cages from teahouse eaves to show off their plumage and singing.
Half the group had a crush on the other half, and each of us sported a different form of camouflage, of plumage.
The raven's somber black plumage, unearthly voice and attraction to carrion inspired humans, who associated them with otherworldly forces and mysterious beings.
W: Deadly Plumage — Xayah conjures a storm of feather blades that increase the strength and speed of her next few basic attacks.
The plumage on its neck contain what appears to be traces of melanosomes—wide, pigment-containing packets that give feathers their color.
The analogy was imperfect—female monals are the plainer birds, chestnuts and cream, their plumage like avian overalls—but hard to avoid.
Or is she simply adopting hawkish plumage to woo swing voters and to deflect criticism from the right during the general election?
This year, Mr. Williams looked up and found man-made blooms and plumage — bursts of color holding space for the real thing.
His plumage appeared black as charcoal at first, but as he moved, it shimmered with all the colors of an oil slick.
For her last, on French couture, she wore a gauzy Halston gown suggestive of an exotic bird of green and black plumage.
The researcher Juan Pérez-Mercader at Harvard University is a big fan of birds, their beautiful plumage, the way that they fly.
Although he appreciates their plumage and mating habits and everything else nature photographers love about the animals, he isn't especially interested such things.
He teamed up with some colleagues to use a special camera to take high-resolution pictures of the plumage of these three specimens.
Recalling the plumage of Chakaia Booker's tire sculptures, or Simone Leigh's impenetrable body-architectures, Siegel's skin-like shingles magnify a concealed inner presence.
Eumaniraptorans, part of the larger theropod assemblage of two-legged meat-eating dinosaurs, generally were small and bird-like, covered in colorful plumage.
Maurice, a modest bird with magnificent plumage, did not let out a triumphant cackle at the news of his court victory in Rochefort.
Unlike so many of our native songbirds, cardinals do not migrate, nor do they change the color of their plumage according to season.
Fifteen years was a long time to wait, and thanks to Chilean flamingos, the international tale took on even more plumage … (The Associated Press).
At first, Fisher argued, females might evolve preferences for certain valueless traits, like bright plumage, that just happened to correspond with health and vigor.
This high-intensity group — resplendent in the plumage of a Sunset Strip hair band, and playing a kind of prog-metal — delivers the goods.
Enveloped in the storybook scenery, as lithe ski racers whiz by like birds in exotic Lycra plumage, you're in the thrill of the moment.
The amber, which weighs 6.5 grams, contains bone fragments and feathers, adding to mounting fossil evidence that many dinosaurs sported primitive plumage rather than scales.
One of the most glorious sights in the spring is a male American goldfinch decked out in his bright yellow, black, and white breeding plumage.
"I mean, look at these tassels," she said, eyeing an explosion of electric-colored plumage and a jumble of foot-high embroidered iron-on animals.
Sitting atop Ms. Erivo's shaved head was an accompanying headpiece by Gigi Burris made of the same plumage, in addition to turkey and goose feathers.
Yes, recent research suggests that T. rex had plumage, said Mark A. Norell, the curator of the exhibit and chairman of the museum's paleontology division.
Flawless in his scarlet plumage, he was strong and loud and fearless, and he fiercely guarded the safflower feeder hanging just past our back deck.
Bou's unique focus (previously covered by WIRED) sets him apart from other bird photographers, who are often more interested in their subject's plumage or wingspans.
The researchers want to study the feathers with the aim of extracting protein to study how the creature adapted and whether its plumage worked as camouflage.
The work, published in  Nature Communications , suggests that dinosaurs who sported feathers evolved skin to cope with their plumage as far back as the middle Jurassic.
The lesser flamingo, however, can consume enormous amounts with no ill effects (unless you count their colorful plumage, which comes from a pigment in the algae).
The costumes, by Kiki Smith and Jill St. Coeur, nicely convey personality, especially for Lorilyn, whose colorful, multipatterned ensembles are riotous displays of thrift-store plumage.
The objects of their attention — many outrageously adorned in multihued and frilly plumage — appeared largely unfazed by the prodding appraisals of crown, beak, wing and tail.
But a study just published in Naturwissenschaften has gone beyond these observations and shown that bright plumage is also an indicator of a healthy digestive system.
He glows, all shining armor and colorful plumage, on top of an impossible creature with the head of an eagle and the body of a tiger.
Abstract underpinnings (a tightly constructed triangular vortex at the core) spar with recognizable imagery (gloves, plumage, tassels, fringes, ribbon-like fabrics wrapped in stripes over tubes).
Rather than the "zipped" feathers of modern birds, its plumage was likely composed of short quills with long, flexible barbs that stuck out in V-shapes.
The account is run by a woman named Sherry Mastromarino and features her farm of Silkies, a breed of chicken known for their soft, floofy plumage.
"Mountain goat relocation will allow these animals to reoccupy historical range areas in the Cascades and increase population viability," US Forest Service wildlife biologist Jesse Plumage said.
This suggests that birds evolved their unique plumage arrangements over 100 million years ago, and it hasn't had to change very much—if at all—over time.
With a coloring style that feels as if someone took a firecracker to a box of crayons, Na makes turtle shells as dynamic as a peacock's plumage.
Feathers are rarely preserved in the fossil record, but scientists have uncovered feathered dino fossils in China and Siberia, suggesting plumage was common across the great lizards.
That's the preferred tactic of this research group, which previously found evidence of eumelanin — a brown and black pigment — in the plumage of the feathered dinosaur Archaeopteryx.
A bowerbird with especially bright plumage might have a robust immune system, for example, while one that finds rare and distinctive trinkets might be a superb forager.
For me, then, the issue isn't openness versus tribalism, but suffocation through an assimilation that erases us, subsumes our plumage, our creativity and our daring, magnificent heritage.
This oil buildup distributes through to their feathers, or plumage, to help them swim, creating lightweight yet water-resistant properties that Beier looked to recreate with Bio-Oil.
Previous explanations for the penchant for drab plumage among female animals have focused on the increased need for females to camouflage from predators and conserve energy for reproduction.
The quality and color of a bird's plumage is an important part of bird mate choice, and could prevent Italian sparrows from mating with Spanish or house sparrows.
Dancing with awkward-limbed jigs and posing about in balletic positions, a company of parrots strive to find balance between their lovely, chromatic plumage and augmented, bipedal faculties.
The blaze of color of the plumage and feather of the birds portrayed are taken… as the starting point, and [I] add individual human extremities to the illustrations.
He hung a color wheel in their playroom and would ask them to replicate the plumage of an exotic bird, or the bright patterns of a butterfly's wings.
It is said the plumage of a porg has evolved to give them a water-shedding ability, but this also means lots of delicious natural oils are at play.
Since they needed to make the measurements both with and without plumage, the role of test subject in this part of the study was played by a dead hummingbird.
Three years ago, Jeffreys saw a Wompoo foraging for berries in the forest near Byron Bay, Australia; its brilliant plumage blew her away and inspired her portrait series Ornithurae.
A pair of wings found encased in amber suggest that the plumage of modern birds has remained almost unchanged from some of their dinosaur-era ancestors, according to scientists.
The small rodents freeze for a crucial moment when moonlight reflects off the birds' plumage — but only if the barn owls hunting them are white, rather than reddish brown.
To determine whether its plumage pattern might be deciphered, Dr Vinther flew there to examine the three best-preserved specimens, two of which are in Nanjing and one in Beijing.
If Dr Sepp's computer can see this, it seems likely female house finches can, too—and will thus have yet another reason to pick the mates with the prettiest plumage.
If... A pair of wings found encased in amber suggest that the plumage of modern birds has remained almost unchanged from some of their dinosaur-era ancestors, according to scientists.
Wolfe, who died Monday at 88, was the rarest bird in American letters, a master of both nonfiction and fiction, an achievement that his distinctive plumage served sometimes to obscure.
Decade-old shows make for unmatchable comfort viewing—but when ever-proliferating platforms make for ever-harder choices, the question remains whether the plumage is colorful enough to attract subscribers.
"I had one as a pet when I was a kid," said Dr. Tsang, 40, who sported some bold plumage herself, a shock of electric blue hair in a ponytail.
Designed to make a man recede into the background, to render him a neutral foil to a woman's resplendent plumage, evening wear is a formula for guys: reliable and dependably dull.
As if it hasn't been exciting enough to reimagine these iconic carnivores with vibrant feathered plumage, we may also be on the brink of understanding their tantalizing and bizarre cranial bling.
Each will plumb the tragic depths of that white and black plumage in choreography by the company's director, Peter Martins, that builds on 19th-century steps and later contributions by Balanchine.
Davis, the author of "An Everglades Providence," recounts "one of the bloodiest crimes committed against wildlife in modern times," the slaughter of plumage birds for feathered hats in the 19th century.
The astrologer has captured a cockerel with fabulous golden plumage, and he plans to use it to win the lady of his heart, the Queen of Shemakhan, a beautiful Eastern potentate.
A more intriguing theory is that human brains are the equivalent of brightly coloured plumage in birds, permitting the sexes to show off to each other what good mates they would make.
Screenshot: George Vaughan (eBird)I'll note that even some seasoned American birders avoid the gulls—they all look pretty similar, and each one can go through several different plumage patterns before maturing.
Paleontologist Dongyu Hu, the lead author of the new study, says the newly discovered dinosaur contained a curious mix of ancient and modern features, including iridescent plumage seen in some living birds.
In 2010, Prum and his colleagues revealed that a crow-size dinosaur called Anchiornis huxleyi was beautifully adorned: gray body plumage, an auburn mohawk and long white limb feathers with black spangles.
When one day that tree shows off its plumage, it will honor her love of country — la tierra — and help make her beloved Puerto Rico as splendorous as she once remembered it.
She looked like a tiny plucked blue chicken, her only remaining plumage some straggly wing and tail feathers and a frayed skull cap of the ones she couldn't reach with her beak to mutilate.
" The chinstrap penguin is characterized by a cap of black plumage, a white face and a continuous band of black feathers that extends from one side of the head to the other -- the "chinstrap.
You know those nature videos in which some vain and feathery bird, in the grip of a mating ritual, puffs up his chest and fans his plumage to impress the object of his adoration?
The puffins' scratching is only the second type of tool use related to body care spotted in wild birds -- the first is "anting," when birds smear ants all over their plumage to fight parasites.
Similarly, in 22010, the evolutionary biologists W.D. Hamilton and Marlene Zuk proposed that some ornaments, in particular bright plumage, signaled that a male was resilient against parasites and would grant his children the same protection.
Elegant and playful, Simler's meticulous digital renderings of birds and their plumage invite close inspection, offering as well a chance to figure out where the cat is lurking within the clever composition of each page.
He saves brightly colored feathers from his patients in a desk drawer in the hospital office and periodically sends them to the Pueblo of Zuni in New Mexico, where molted plumage is required for headdresses.
Unfortunately, a genetic analysis "lead us to the conclusion that the Liberian Greenbul is most likely a plumage variant of the Icterine Greenbul," according to the paper published over the summer in the Journal of Ornithology.
Despite the feathers, the dinosaur was not able to fly, providing more evidence for the contention that plumage originally began popping up on animals for reasons other than flight — such as for camouflage or attracting mates.
The Bird of Paradise lives on an exceptionally low altitude, so he matched it with tropical, low-growing fruits and spirits, rum, mango, almonds, saffron, and date palms for a presentation as colorful as its plumage.
Her costumes defy categorization, with elements like a sparkly red bra worn over a print dress; aviation headgear, with goggles suitable for a World War I flying ace; and an overskirt that looks like ostrich plumage.
He pointed to the extravagantly shaped plumage of Ms. van Herpen's 2013-14 "Bird Dress," in which all the feathers were made of silicon and laser-cut, but then applied by hand to the cotton base.
The marvelous costumes, by Patricia Zipprodt, make dramatic juxtapositions of pale and black hues, especially on sleeves; when characters suddenly acquire lines of hanging red strands on their arms, like plumage, the impact is high voltage.
Among the sculptures are an alligator carved from a 250-year old eucalyptus tree, a chameleon hewn from the wood of the mango tree, a carved peacock complete with towering plumage, an owl, and other wildlife.
Instead, those who have elaborate-colored feathers are more likely to have basic singing skills, while males who resemble their female counterparts with less-intricate plumage had bigger and better musical talents, as reported by New Scientist.
It takes Big Dick Energy to, um [looks at Wikipedia entry for penguins], live mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, have countershaded dark and white plumage, and feed on krill, fish, squid and other forms of sea life.
That's because they're in their breeding plumage, Sarah Aucoin, the chief of education and wildlife for the New York City parks department, said of the thousands of birds currently passing through the city on their way north.
Gay people so often fear other gay voices, voices we cannot control representing our shared experiences and world, but because so much is unsaid, we also hunger for our world to be described with grandeur, with plumage.
PARIS  — Poggy, also known as Poggy the Man, governmentally known as Motofumi Kogi, is familiar in image and plumage to those who follow men's fashion, particularly the version of it that walks the streets, not the runway.
Much like Warhol's shock of white hair or Big Bird's saffron plumage, the president's vibrant hue is so consistently present and meticulously maintained that it was a culturally embedded representation of him long before he entered politics.

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