Long, stiff, feathers on the wings or tail of a bird that aid in the generation of lift and thrust.
1Elrick was already wrenching out the long flight feathers from Saekrae's wing.
2Small birds follow larger egg and nestling eaters, attacking their flight feathers.
3The crosshilts were fashioned as raven wings, flight feathers partially spread.
4Examination of their flight feathers reveals each bird's minimum age.
5Ardemun even found the ground nest of a golden eagle and brought back some good flight feathers.
6We found a few charred arrows with traces of red flight feathers and a confused scattering of hoof-prints.
7Feathers were found on the specimen but it lacked the large flight feathers of birds and their closest relatives.
8His tunic strained at the seams, and grease in his over-coiffed hair had attracted stray filaments from the arrows' flight feathers.
9If any of the chickens persist in flying out we must clip the flight feathers of their wings (one wing, not both).
10She molts her flight feathers shortly after she starts to lay eggs, so if he should disappear, all the nestlings and the female will die.
Translations for flight feathers