The wide outer borders: black & deep brown outer feathers of one of the maritime scoters: Oidemia nigra, Melanitta fusca, or Mel. perspicillata; the feathers glossed with green or blue/purple are from ...

This camouflage plumage protects drakes from predators during the three or four weeks they are unable to fly because they are growing new wing feathers.

The hottest look this season is the look of a dead bird. In mid-October, fine dining trendsetter Noma transitioned to its game menu, serving a fried mallard wing with the feathers still on and ...

Grab your binoculars and take a 'quack' at correctly identifying two commonly confused ducks: the redhead vs canvasback.

At the recent Coleman hatchery wing bee, biologists set up at large portable tables under sunny skies. Boxes of envelopes containing the wings and feathers sat at the end of each table.

A Wingstop customer says the wing chain “played in [her] face” after her $45 worth of wings appeared to contain something called “filaments.” Filaments are part of a chicken’s feather ...

Birds have long been nature’s masters of flight. Their ability to glide, dive, and twist through the air with ease has fascinated both scientists and engineers. But there's more to bird flight than ...

Feather-inspired wing flaps may prevent planes from stalling ‘ The more flaps you add to the front of the wing, the higher the performance benefit.’ Andrew Paul Oct 29, 2024 12:59 PM EDT ...

The wings of many kinds of ducks have a patch of iridescent feathers, called the speculum; the plumage of grackles and other birds, including the peacock, is more or less iridescent.

On the lookout: A great blue heron, spreading its wings, shares the shoreline with a mallard duck on the west side of Cannon Hill Park in Spokane on Thursday. Local journalism is essential. Give ...

One wing on each side dipping just below the fly's belly was also effective, but less than durable. The answer was two mallard slips on each side. Paired together, these wings work and will last.