Long, stiff, feathers on the wings or tail of a bird that aid in the generation of lift and thrust.
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You need the middle of the flight feather, where the feather is strong.
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Elrick was already wrenching out the long flight feathers from Saekrae's wing.
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Small birds follow larger egg and nestling eaters, attacking their flight feathers.
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The crosshilts were fashioned as raven wings, flight feathers partially spread.
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Examination of their flight feathers reveals each bird's minimum age.
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Ardemun even found the ground nest of a golden eagle and brought back some good flight feathers.
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We found a few charred arrows with traces of red flight feathers and a confused scattering of hoof-prints.
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Feathers were found on the specimen but it lacked the large flight feathers of birds and their closest relatives.
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His tunic strained at the seams, and grease in his over-coiffed hair had attracted stray filaments from the arrows' flight feathers.
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If any of the chickens persist in flying out we must clip the flight feathers of their wings (one wing, not both).
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She molts her flight feathers shortly after she starts to lay eggs, so if he should disappear, all the nestlings and the female will die.