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Перевод: plumage

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оперение; перья

Тезаурус:

1. Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings, or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage, and she'd declare: "My dears, I am preparing for The Flight - into Egypt, to the islands, to the New World - who knows!"
2. Male indigo birds sport beautiful metallic blue plumage, while male whydahs sometimes possess spectacularly long tails.
3. In humid forest (K conditions) by contrast, plumage colour does not change seasonally, monogamy is the rule, and colonies are occupied for long breeding seasons with individual pairs breeding in successive relays.
4. The sea eagle, with its light grey and white plumage and black-tipped primaries, is arguably the most handsome of the Haliaetus genus to which all three fish-catchers belong.
5. In some polygynous species it is not the male's plumage that attracts the female, but specially constructed artefacts - bowers.
6. Eagles' new plumage
7. And the predatory honey buzzard, although it does not eat honey, will excavate wasps' nests to feed on the grubs, protected from stings by its dense plumage and scaly legs.
8. Jack, in summer plumage, glowed with colour.
9. From a distance, a buzzard sitting on a post looks just like an extension of that post, because its brown plumage mingles very easily with similarly coloured items.
10. She heard a shrill, penetrating whistle of a bird and trying to follow George's pointing finger, she caught a glimpse of brilliant blue-green plumage, with an orangey breast, as the bird flashed down into a deeper pool scooped out by the stream.
11. Cattle egret in full breeding plumage at Kumana (above).
12. Bateleur Eagles are unusual in having dimorphic plumage, the female displays grey secondary feathers whilst males have entirely black wings.
13. The European cuckoo, with its grey plumage and barred underside, bears a striking resemblance to the predatory sparrowhawk, pictured below.