List of terms used in bird topography
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The following is a list of terms used in bird topography:
Plumage features
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- Back
- Belly
- Breast
- Cheek
- Chin
- Crest
- Crown
- Crown patch
- Ear-coverts
- Eye-ring
- Eyestripe (or eye line)
- Feather, see category: Category:Feathers
- Flanks
- Forecrown
- Gorget
- Hood (or half-hood[1])
- Lateral throat stripe
- Lores
- Malar
- Mantle
- Mask
- Moustachial stripe
- Nape
- Nuchal collar[1]
- Operculum (on pigeons).[2]
- Pennaceous feathers
- Postocular stripe
- Remiges
- Rump
- Spectacles
- Submoustachial stripe
- Supercilium
- Supraloral
- Parts of the tail include:
- Throat
- Undertail coverts
- Upper mandible (or maxilla)
- Uppertail coverts
- Vent, crissum or cloaca
- Vent band[3]
- Parts of the wings include:
- Alula
- Apical spot[3]
- Axillar
- Bend of wing
- Carpal covert
- Emargination[3]
- Greater coverts
- Leading edge of wing[1]
- Lesser coverts
- Marginal coverts
- Median coverts
- Mirror (on gulls)
- Primaries
- Primary projection
- Primary numbers (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.)[3]
- Scapulars
- Scapular crescent (on gulls)[3]
- Secondaries
- Speculum
- Tertials
- Tertial step (on gulls)[3]
- Trailing edge of wing[1]
- Upper scapulars[3]
- Wing bar
- Wing coverts
- Wing edging[1]
- Wing linings[1]
- Wing tip or point (denoted by the number of the longest primary, counted from the carpal joint)[4]
Bare-parts features
[edit]- Beak or bill
- Brooding patch
- Caruncle (bird anatomy)
- Comb, or Coxcomb
- Orbital skin,[1] or orbital ring
- Tarsus
- Tibia
- Wattle
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Garrigues, Richard & Dean, Robert (2007). Birds of Costa Rica. Zona Tropical Publication. ISBN 978-0-8014-4587-3.
- ^ Zimmerman, Dale A.; Turner, Donald A.; Pearson, David J. (1999). Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01022-6.
- ^ a b c d e f g Dunn, Jon L. & Alderfer, Jonathan (2006). National Geographic Guide to the Birds of North America. National Geographic Society. ISBN 1-4262-0072-2.
- ^ de Beer, S. J.; Lockwood, G. M.; Raijmakers, J. H. F. A.; Raijmakers, J. M. H.; Scott, W. A.; Oschadleus, H. D.; Underhill, L. G. (July 2001). SAFRING Bird Ringing Manual (ADU Guide 5), 6 The bird in the hand, 6.1 Glossary (PDF). Cape Town: Avian Demography Unit. p. 44-46. Retrieved 17 March 2017.