List of terms used in bird topography

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The following is a list of terms used in bird topography:

Plumage features

Back

Belly

Breast

Cheek

Chin

Crest

Crown

Crown patch

Ear-coverts

Eye-ring

Eyestripe (or eye line)

Feather, see category: Category:Feathers

Flanks

Forecrown

Gorget

Hood (or half-hood)

Lateral throat stripe

Lores

Malar

Mantle

Mask

Moustachial stripe

Nape

Nuchal collar

Operculum (on pigeons).

Pennaceous feathers

Postocular stripe

Remiges

Rump

Spectacles

Submoustachial stripe

Supercilium

Supraloral

Parts of the tail include:

Rectrices

Tail corner

Terminal band

Subterminal band

Throat

Undertail coverts

Upper mandible (or maxilla)

Uppertail coverts

Vent, crissum or cloaca

Vent band

Parts of the wings include:

Alula

Apical spot

Axillar

Bend of wing

Carpal covert

Emargination

Greater coverts

Leading edge of wing

Lesser coverts

Marginal coverts

Median coverts

Mirror (on gulls)

Primaries

Primary projection

Primary numbers (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.)

Scapulars

Scapular crescent (on gulls)

Secondaries

Speculum

Tertials

Tertial step (on gulls)

Trailing edge of wing

Upper scapulars

Wing bar

Wing coverts

Wing edging

Wing linings

Wing tip or point (denoted by the number of the longest primary, counted from the carpal joint)

Bare-parts features

Beak or bill

Cere

Culmen

Gape

Gonys

Gonydeal angle

Gonydeal spot

Nail (of beak)

Nares

Rhamphotheca

Gnathotheca

Rhinotheca

Tomia

Caruncle (bird anatomy)

Comb, or Coxcomb

Orbital skin, or orbital ring

Tarsus

Tibia

Wattle

References

List of terms used in bird topography Wikipedia

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Plumage features

Bare-parts features

References