Flight feather, the Glossary

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1. 103 relations: Albatross, Alula, American dusky flycatcher, American woodcock, Anatomical terms of location, Angle of attack, Animal, Anseriformes, Arctic, Bird anatomy, Bird flight, Bird migration, Bird ringing, Bird-of-paradise, Broad-tailed hummingbird, Callus, Cambridge University Press, Cassowary, Claw, Club-winged manakin, Common pheasant, Common snipe, Courtship display, Covert feather, Crane (bird), Delayed feathering in chickens, Dendrochronology, Domestic pigeon, Drag (physics), Drumming (snipe), Eagle, Embryo, Empidonax, Emu, Eurasian skylark, European honey buzzard, Family (biology), Finger, Flamingo, Grebe, Grouse, Gull, Hammond's flycatcher, Hawk, Hazel grouse, Hoatzin, Humerus, Hummingbird, Kākāpō, Latitude, ... Expand index (53 more) »

2. Bird flight
3. Birds
4. Feathers

Albatross

Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses).

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Alula

The alula, or bastard wing, (plural alulae) is a small projection on the anterior edge of the wing of modern birds and a few non-avian dinosaurs. Flight feather and alula are feathers.

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American dusky flycatcher

The American dusky flycatcher (Empidonax oberholseri), or simply dusky flycatcher, is a small insectivorous passerine of the tyrant flycatcher family.

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American woodcock

The American woodcock (Scolopax minor), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, mudbat, bogsucker, night partridge, or Labrador twister is a small shorebird species found primarily in the eastern half of North America.

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Anatomical terms of location

Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans.

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Angle of attack

In fluid dynamics, angle of attack (AOA, α, or \alpha) is the angle between a reference line on a body (often the chord line of an airfoil) and the vector representing the relative motion between the body and the fluid through which it is moving.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Anseriformes

Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Bird anatomy

Bird anatomy, or the physiological structure of birds' bodies, shows many unique adaptations, mostly aiding flight. Flight feather and bird anatomy are birds.

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Bird flight

Bird flight is the primary mode of locomotion used by most bird species in which birds take off and fly.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year. Flight feather and bird migration are bird flight and birds.

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Bird ringing

Bird ringing (UK) or bird banding (US) is the attachment of a small, individually numbered metal or plastic tag to the leg or wing of a wild bird to enable individual identification.

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Bird-of-paradise

The birds-of-paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes.

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Broad-tailed hummingbird

The broad-tailed hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) is a medium-sized hummingbird species found in highland regions from western United States and Western Canada to Mexico and Guatemala.

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Callus

A callus (calluses) is an area of thickened and sometimes hardened skin that forms as a response to repeated friction, pressure, or other irritation.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Cassowary

Cassowaries (muruk, kasuari, Biak: man suar, Papuan: kasu weri) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes.

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Claw

A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds).

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Club-winged manakin

The club-winged manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus) is a small passerine bird which is a resident breeding species in the cloud forest on the western slopes of the Andes Mountains of Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.

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Common pheasant

The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae).

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Common snipe

The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World.

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Courtship display

A courtship display is a set of display behaviors in which an animal, usually a male, attempts to attract a mate; the mate exercises choice, so sexual selection acts on the display.

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Covert feather

A covert feather or tectrix on a bird is one of a set of feathers, called coverts (or tectrices), which cover other feathers. Flight feather and covert feather are feathers.

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Crane (bird)

Cranes are a type of large bird with long legs and necks in the biological family Gruidae of the order Gruiformes.

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Delayed feathering in chickens

Delayed-feathering in chickens is a genetically determined delay in the first weeks of feather growing, which occurs normally among the chicks of many chicken breeds and no longer manifests itself once the chicken completes adult plumage. Flight feather and Delayed feathering in chickens are feathers.

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Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree.

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Domestic pigeon

The domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica or Columba livia forma domestica) is a pigeon subspecies that was derived from the rock dove or rock pigeon.

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Drag (physics)

In fluid dynamics, drag, sometimes referred to as fluid resistance, is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object, moving with respect to a surrounding fluid.

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Drumming (snipe)

Drumming (also called bleating or winnowing) is a sound produced by snipe as part of their courtship display flights.

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Eagle

Eagle is the common name for the golden eagle, bald eagle, and other birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Embryo

An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism.

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Empidonax

The genus Empidonax is a group of small insect-eating passerine birds in the tyrant flycatcher family, the Tyrannidae.

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Emu

The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is a species of flightless bird endemic to Australia, where it is the tallest native bird.

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Eurasian skylark

The Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis) is a passerine bird in the lark family, Alaudidae.

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European honey buzzard

The European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus), also known as the pern or common pern, is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Finger

A finger is a prominent digit on the forelimbs of most tetrapod vertebrate animals, especially those with prehensile extremities (i.e. hands) such as humans and other primates.

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Flamingo

Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes.

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Grebe

Grebes are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes.

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Grouse

Grouse are a group of birds from the order Galliformes, in the family Phasianidae.

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Gull

Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.

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Hammond's flycatcher

Hammond's flycatcher (Empidonax hammondii) is a flycatcher in the family Tyrannidae.

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Hawk

Hawks are birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.

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Hazel grouse

The hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia), sometimes called the hazel hen, is one of the smaller members of the grouse family of birds.

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Hoatzin

The hoatzin or hoactzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) is a species of tropical bird found in swamps, riparian forests, and mangroves of the Amazon and the Orinoco basins in South America.

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Humerus

The humerus (humeri) is a long bone in the arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow.

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Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae.

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Kākāpō

The kākāpō (kākāpō; Strigops habroptila), sometimes known as the owl parrot or owl-faced parrot, is a species of large, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot of the superfamily Strigopoidea.

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.

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Leading-edge slat

A slat is an aerodynamic surface on the leading edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft.

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Lift (force)

When a fluid flows around an object, the fluid exerts a force on the object.

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Ligament

A ligament is the fibrous connective tissue that connects bones to other bones.

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Loon

Loons (North American English) or divers (British / Irish English) are a group of aquatic birds found in much of North America and northern Eurasia.

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Lyrebird

A lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds that compose the genus Menura, and the family Menuridae.

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Magnificent bird-of-paradise

The magnificent bird-of-paradise (Diphyllodes magnificus) is a species of bird-of-paradise.

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Manus (anatomy)

The manus (Latin for hand, plural manus) is the zoological term for the distal portion of the forelimb of an animal.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Moulting

In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.

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Mutation

In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA.

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Northern lapwing

The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily.

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Olecranon

The olecranon, is a large, thick, curved bony process on the proximal, posterior end of the ulna.

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Oriental skylark

The Oriental skylark (Alauda gulgula), also known as the small skylark, is a species of skylark found in the Sino-Indian region and parts of central Asia.

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Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.

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Ostrich

Ostriches are large flightless birds.

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Owl

Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes (from Latin passer 'sparrow' and formis '-shaped') which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Peafowl

Peafowl is a common name for two bird species of the genus Pavo and one species of the closely related genus Afropavo within the tribe Pavonini of the family Phasianidae (the pheasants and their allies).

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Pelican

Pelicans (genus Pelecanus) are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae.

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Pennaceous feather

The pennaceous feather is a type of feather present in most modern birds and in some other species of maniraptoriform dinosaurs. Flight feather and pennaceous feather are feathers.

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Pennant-winged nightjar

The pennant-winged nightjar (Caprimulgus vexillarius) is a species of nightjar that occurs from Nigeria to northern South Africa.

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Phalanx bone

The phalanges (phalanx) are digital bones in the hands and feet of most vertebrates.

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Pinioning

Pinioning is the act of surgically removing one pinion joint, the joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body, to prevent flight.

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Plumage

Plumage is a layer of feathers that covers a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers. Flight feather and Plumage are feathers.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Pygostyle

Pygostyle describes a skeletal condition in which the final few caudal vertebrae are fused into a single ossification, supporting the tail feathers and musculature.

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Ratite

A ratite is any of a group of mostly flightless birds within the infraclass Palaeognathae.

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Ribbon-tailed astrapia

The ribbon-tailed astrapia, also known as Shaw Mayer's astrapia (Astrapia mayeri), is a species of bird-of-paradise.

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Ruffed grouse

The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) is a medium-sized grouse occurring in forests from the Appalachian Mountains across Canada to Alaska.

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Sandpiper

Scolopacidae is a large family of shorebirds, or waders, which mainly includes many species known as sandpipers, but also others such as woodcocks, curlews and snipes.

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Saw-wing

The saw-wings, Psalidoprocne, is a small genus of passerine birds in the swallow family.

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Secretarybird

The secretarybird or secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a large bird of prey that is endemic to Africa.

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Stall (fluid dynamics)

In fluid dynamics, a stall is a reduction in the lift coefficient generated by a foil as angle of attack increases.

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Standard-winged nightjar

The standard-winged nightjar (Caprimulgus longipennis) is a nocturnal bird in the nightjar family.

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Steamer duck

The steamer ducks are a genus (Tachyeres) of ducks in the family Anatidae.

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Stelgidopteryx

Stelgidopteryx (Baird, 1858) is a small genus of swallows.

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Stork

Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills.

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Stridulation

Stridulation is the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts.

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Swallow-tailed kite

The swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus) is a pernine raptor which breeds from the southeastern United States to eastern Peru and northern Argentina.

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Symmetry

Symmetry in everyday life refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance.

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Tendon

A tendon or sinew is a tough band of dense fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone.

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Thrust

Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law.

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Titicaca grebe

The Titicaca grebe (Rollandia microptera), also known as the Titicaca flightless grebe or short-winged grebe, is a grebe found on the altiplano of Peru and Bolivia.

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Treecreeper

The treecreepers are a family, Certhiidae, of small passerine birds, widespread in wooded regions of the Northern Hemisphere and sub-Saharan Africa.

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Tyrant flycatcher

The tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America.

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Ulna

The ulna or ulnar bone (ulnae or ulnas) is a long bone in the forearm stretching from the elbow to the wrist.

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Viduidae

The indigobirds and whydahs, together with the cuckoo-finch, make up the family Viduidae; they are small passerine birds native to Africa.

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Vortex

In fluid dynamics, a vortex (vortices or vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or curved.

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Wilson's snipe

Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata) is a small, stocky shorebird.

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Wing

A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid. Flight feather and wing are bird flight.

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Woodcreeper

The woodcreepers (Dendrocolaptinae) comprise a subfamily of suboscine passerine birds endemic to the Neotropics.

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Woodpecker

Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers.

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Wryneck

The wrynecks (genus Jynx) are a small but distinctive group of small Old World woodpeckers.

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See also

Bird flight

• Bird flight
• Bird migration
• Codex on the Flight of Birds
• Flight feather
• Flocking
• Imping
• List of birds by flight heights
• List of birds by flight speed
• List of soaring birds
• Origin of avian flight
• V formation
• Whiffling
• Wing
• Wing-assisted incline running

Birds

• Avian sleep
• Bird
• Bird anatomy
• Bird behavior
• Bird conservation
• Bird migration
• Birdcage
• Birds and humans
• Birds of the Amazon
• Chorioallantoic membrane
• Climate change and birds
• Clutch (eggs)
• Evolution of birds
• Fecal sac
• Flight feather
• Flightless birds
• Flock (birds)
• Glossary of bird terms
• Helpers at the nest
• Hieraves
• Hoarding (animal behavior)
• Humphrey–Parkes terminology
• Hybridisation in birds
• Individual birds
• Introduced birds
• Kakyen
• List of terms used in bird topography
• Lists of birds
• Litusilvanae
• Mixed-species foraging flock
• National Geographic Field Guide to Birds of North America
• New World warbler
• Odontoanserae
• Outline of birds
• Pecten (biology)
• Pecten oculi
• Plucking post
• Prehistoric birds
• Rhea fossilis
• Rookery
• Skylarking (birds)
• Sort sol
• Telluraves
• Toxic bird
• Vinkensport
• Water bird
• Wattle (anatomy)
• Wingspan

Feathers

• Aigrette
• Alula
• Avifilopluma
• Boa (clothing accessory)
• Conservation and restoration of feathers
• Covert feather
• Crest (feathers)
• Delayed feathering in chickens
• Down feather
• Eagle feather law
• Ear tuft
• Eye-ring
• Feather
• Feather development
• Feather duster
• Feather hole
• Feather pecking
• Feather-plucking
• Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
• Featherwork
• Flight feather
• Hackles
• Hen feathering
• Imping
• List of poultry feathers
• Marabou (fashion)
• Pennaceous feather
• Pin feather
• Plumage
• Plume (feather)
• Plume hunting
• Preening
• Quill
• Speculum feathers
• Supercilium
• Tarring and feathering

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_feather

Also known as Flight feathers, Flight-feather, Pinion (feather), Primaries (birds), Primary feather, Primary feathers, Primary flight feather, Primary projection, Primary-feather, Quill feather, Rectrice, Rectrices, Rectrix, Remex, Remige, Remiges, Retrice, Retrices, Retrix, Secondaries (birds), Secondary feathers, Tertial feather, Tertial feathers, Tertials, Tertiary feathers, Wing feathers, Wing formula.

, Leading-edge slat, Lift (force), Ligament, Loon, Lyrebird, Magnificent bird-of-paradise, Manus (anatomy), Mathematics, Moulting, Mutation, Northern lapwing, Olecranon, Oriental skylark, Ornithology, Ostrich, Owl, Passerine, Peafowl, Pelican, Pennaceous feather, Pennant-winged nightjar, Phalanx bone, Pinioning, Plumage, Predation, Pygostyle, Ratite, Ribbon-tailed astrapia, Ruffed grouse, Sandpiper, Saw-wing, Secretarybird, Stall (fluid dynamics), Standard-winged nightjar, Steamer duck, Stelgidopteryx, Stork, Stridulation, Swallow-tailed kite, Symmetry, Tendon, Thrust, Titicaca grebe, Treecreeper, Tyrant flycatcher, Ulna, Viduidae, Vortex, Wilson's snipe, Wing, Woodcreeper, Woodpecker, Wryneck.