"secondary" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Tell apart from song or in flight by yellow bar on the secondary feathers below the wing, present only in the Russet Nightingale-thrush.
- When flying, the Australian Wood Duck is the only duck with white secondary feathers and dark wingtips.
- Four or five days after hatching, the young is skinny, blue-gray in color and only has its secondary feathers.
- The western Spotted Towhee has white spots on its primary and secondary feathers.
- Birds in more than 40 non-passerine families seem to be missing the fifth secondary feather on each wing, a state known as diastataxis.
- In flight both sexes also show distinctive white secondary feathers, a feature shared only with the related genus Coturnicops.
- The forewing of Anchiornis was composed of 11 primary feathers and 10 secondary feathers.
- The secondary feathers and wing coverts may have gray margins.
- When a jacana is in flight, its yellow primary and secondary feathers are visible.
- They should be well closed and not show a "sail like effect", that is caused by raised secondary feathers that break the smooth wing line.
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