Sentence examples for plumage from high-quality English sources.

• It “eclipses” his usual bright plumage.

• On this basis, he discovered that all young jacobins, regardless of sex, sport male-like plumage.

• “With its noisy chattering, black and white plumage, and long tail, there is nothing else quite like the magpie in the UK.”

• Their winter plumage is black, grey and white but in spring they moult into their breeding plumage with a rich chestnut throat and belly and golden ear-tufts.

• Plumage, collective feathered covering of a bird.

• These birds begin to get a dull plumage by early June.

• Coloration is hereditary, and gray plumage is dominant.

• The white-spotted plumage may be mainly red, yellow, or gray.

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• Touches of bright red on the plumage or on bare parts are not infrequent.

• Plumules are present in young birds before they develop the adult plumage.

• In winter plumage, most grebes are brown, black, or gray above and white or light brown below.

• First, the team had to devise a way to deal with the 11,966 types of plumage they had set out to examine.

• Bright plumage is associated with high testosterone levels; however, testosterone itself appears to suppress the immune system.

• Passerines often are sexually dimorphic in their plumage, with adult males wearing brighter colours and more striking patterns than do females.

• The secretion of this gland contains approximately one-half lipids (fats and oils) and is probably important in dressing and waterproofing the plumage.

• As might be expected, stuffed females in female plumage received a lot of sexual attention from males, whilst those in male plumage were spared.

plumage sentence examples

• Many songbirds adopt a bright, contrasting nuptial plumage during the breeding season, reverting to a drabber winter plumage during the postnuptial molt.

• Among birds, meanwhile, analysis of the largest order (passerines, or song birds, which are 60% of bird species) showed that the proportion of specimens of a species that were male was directly related to how showy that species’ male plumage was compared to the plumage of its females.

• Cultural evolution, in other words, is generating conformity in the same sort of way that biological evolution does when the plumage of a male bird has to conform to female expectations of what a male looks like if that male is to mate successfully, even though the particular pattern of his plumage brings no other benefit.

• A typical series of molts and plumages would be juvenal plumage, postjuvenal (also called first prebasic) molt, first winter (or first basic) plumage, first prenuptial (or pre-alternate) molt, first nuptial (or alternate) plumage, first postnuptial (first annual, or second prebasic) molt, second winter (or basic) plumage, etc.