A pin feather is a developing feather on a bird. This feather can grow as a new feather during the bird's infancy, or grow to replace one from moulting...

feathers, adapted for high loadings and often strongly asymmetric for improved flight performance. Pin feather "GEOL 204 The Fossil Record: Feathered...

life through molting. New feathers, known when developing as blood, or pin feathers, depending on the stage of growth, are formed through the same follicles...

Pin Feathers is a 1933 short animated film produced by Walter Lantz Productions and released by Universal Pictures. It is the 10th Pooch the Pup cartoon...

shed some old feathers, then pin feathers grow in to replace the old feathers. As the pin feathers become full feathers, other feathers are shed. This...

pennaceous feathers in the midst of moulting. In modern birds, new vaned feathers emerge from the feather follicle enclosed in a "pin feather", a solid...

bred to have white feathers because their pin feathers are less visible when the carcass is dressed, although brown or bronze-feathered varieties are also...

shed some old feathers, then pin feathers grow in to replace the old feathers. As the pin feathers become full feathers, other feathers are shed. This...

irritable. Bathing, warm rainfalls, and humidity allow the sheaths of each pin feather to open more easily and lessen their discomfort. Sun conures are extremely...

Plug and feather, also known as plugs and wedges, feather and wedges, wedges and shims, pins and feathers and feather and tare, is a technique and a three-piece...

effort. These so-called "white feather girls" combed streets, trams, theatres and other public spaces, pinning feathers onto unsuspecting young men as...

of the fledglings (who can be differentiated from the females by the pin feathers remaining on their heads). Females are typically attracted to the males...

with dressing the carcase occur because of the presence of developing pin feathers. In some countries, geese and ducks are force-fed to produce livers with...

Athlete. Here, he was a white-furred bloodhound with long black ears. In Pin Feathers, he had black fur, making him appear very similar to Oswald, except for...

egg tooth. Full crop after being hand-fed. Cacatua alba - 6 Weeks - Pin feathers developing. Egg tooth gone. Cacatua alba - MHNT BirdLife International...

via artificial insemination). They produce more breast meat and their pin feathers are less visible when the carcass is dressed due to their white color...

rode in the feathers of migrating woodcock. In Hamlet, Polonius refers to Hamlet's vows as "springes to catch woodcocks". The 'pin feather' of the Eurasian...

species are often quite rare due to overhunting. The pin feathers (coverts of the leading primary feather of the wing) of the Eurasian woodcock are sometimes...

depicted with a feather. In their Deutsches Wörterbuch, the Brothers Grimm hold it plausible that it derives from the custom of pinning feathers to one's hat...

this pick is called a risha, which historically was crafted from the pin feather of an eagle. Bashir was particularly known for having meticulous picking...

waterproofing of feathers. During moult, birds remove the sheaths from around their emerging pin feathers while preening. Because feathers are critical to...

1914] The End of the Jackson War [October 1914] To the Members of the Pin-Feathers on the Merits of Their Organisation, and of Their New Publication, The...

and Phigys can ruffle the feathers of the crown and nape, and the red-fan parrot (or hawk-headed parrot) has a prominent feather neck frill that it can raise...

was exploited commercially in the past for its blubber, oil, meat, and feathers. Today it is fully protected. In 1778, the English illustrator John Frederick...

at night. Chicks are near-naked and have brown skin with a few white pin feathers on hatching. Chicks leave the nest 10 days after hatching, but remain...

has shorter central feathers than the male) are similar in colouration to the male but have finer black barrings. In flight, the pin-tailed sandgrouse can...

Lantz cartoons before that, such as The Candy House, The Athlete and Pin Feathers. Disney would later use the piece again in 1969's It's Tough to Be a...

Hayhurst. He introduced various techniques, such as the use of bird pin-feathers mounted on wooden handle to set delicate specimens and the storage of...

This is the Summary of the Boxing event at the 2009 SEA Games in Vientiane, Laos. Source:   *   Host nation (Laos) - Canceled Event "25th SEA Games Laos...

shoulders and parts of the wings. By four days they open their eyes, and pin feathers emerge from their wings on day six, and the rest of the body on days...