All have 12 tail feathers and nine primary flight feathers.

These feathers are lovely.

Those masks, those powdered wigs, those feathers? Venetian, Caribbean, Aztec?

No arsenic was found on the feathers, however, indicating that poisoning was not caused by breathing airborne arsenic, since arsenic in the air would be expected to adhere to the feathers.

It is there that the bird acquired its distinctive red chest feathers.

and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar

These are less expensive and more easily laundered than natural down or feathers.

Each is scattering away at random to try to save its scales or feathers.

China has also ruffled many Indian feathers by arbitrarily denying visas to senior officials.

Its members have long, broad wings with 11 primary and about 20 secondary flight feathers.

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

The wings of the ostrich wave proudly but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

Peacocks have evolved to have long, colorful feathers simply because peahens have evolved to find them attractive.

Tropicbirds Order PelecaniformesFamily PhaethontidaeTropicbirds are slender white birds of tropical oceans, with exceptionally long central tail feathers.

And where it's landing to bring the twigs to the cliff, its feathers brushes the rock and it had cut the rock six to eight inches in. There was a cleft in the rock by the brushing of the feathers of generations of the birds.

while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.

On August 31, news broke that Egypt had arrested a spy duck, with a suspicious gadget attached to its feathers.

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

They usually have well developed insulation in order to retain body heat, fur in the case of mammals and feathers in birds.

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Let's imagine that you are really good at making arrowheads, but you're hopeless at making the wooden shafts with the flight feathers attached.

But hope the thing with feathers, as the American poet Emily Dickinson put it often bears little resemblance to realities on the ground.

The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A. E. W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.

The most common quills were taken from the wings of geese or ravens, although the feathers of swans and peacocks were sometimes favored for prestige.

And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes

Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

Please take this music with you home, and start gluing feathers to your arms and take off and fly, and look at the world from a different perspective.

When this grain, which humans could eat directly, is fed to chickens, they use some of it to create bones and feathers and other body parts that we cannot eat.

And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar

The red and dark blue sections are often difficult to see when the bird is perched, while the red base of the outer tail feathers only infrequently can be seen under normal viewing conditions in the wild.

There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.

There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

There appear to have been three types or sizes of ball, the pila, or small ball, used in catching games, the paganica, a heavy ball stuffed with feathers, and the follis, a leather ball filled with air, the largest of the three.

The most widespread of such species are the common clothes moth ( Tineola bisselliella ), the case bearing clothes moth ( Tinea pellionella ), and the carpet moth ( Trichophaga tapetzella ) the brown dotted clothes moth ( Niditinea fuscella ) despite its name, preferentially feeds on feathers in bird nests.

While their brains were having an advantage from being able to copy lighting fires, keeping fires going, new techniques of hunting, these kinds of things inevitably they were also copying putting feathers in their hair, or wearing strange clothes, or painting their faces, or whatever.

Hand axes mark an evolutionary advance in human history tools fashioned to function as what Darwinians call fitness signals that is to say, displays that are performances like the peacock's tail, except that, unlike hair and feathers, the hand axes are consciously cleverly crafted.

The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair was grown like eagles' feathers , and his nails like birds' claws .

The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

We called this bird Sinornis. It's a little bit more advanced than Archaeopteryx, and if you go to different layers, you find things that are less advanced than Archaeopteryx, and every grade in between, so that if you find something today, we're usually splitting hairs or, more appropriately, feathers as to decide whether it's actually a non avian or an avian.