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unusual facts about Feathers



Adam Schmitt

He has worked with Tommy Keene, Eric Voeks, Richard Lloyd, Common Loon, Megan Johns, Unbunny, The Dirty Feathers, Elsinore, The Hathaways, and Shipwreck.

Allometric engineering

The male Long-tailed Widowbird (Euplectes progne) has exceptionally long tail feathers roughly half a meter in length.

Araucana

The current North American standard calls for a chicken that is rumpless (missing their last vertebrae and lacking a tail), possesses ear-tufts (feathers that grow out from near the birds' ears), and lays blue eggs.

Blue-winged Leafbird

The superficially similar Golden-fronted Leafbird lacks blue in the flight feathers and tail, and has a golden forehead.

Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company

Adolph and Leonard Lewisohn were German Jews whose father had established in 1858 an American subsidiary, Lewisohn Brothers, which bought and sold bristles, feathers, hair, metals, and wood.

Bubo

At the time of such pandemics, it was commonly believed by doctors that buboes should be burst; hen feathers were reportedly used for such a purposes.

Caddoan Mississippian culture

Artifacts found in "The Great Mortuary" (Craig Mound) at the Spiro site included wood, conch shell, copper, basketry, woven fabric, lace, fur, feathers, and carved stone statues.

Charlie Feathers

These later albums of original songs penned by Feathers were released on the French label New Rose Records, whose other 1980s releases included albums by cult music heroes like Johnny Thunders, Alex Chilton, Roky Erickson, The Cramps, The Gun Club, and others.

Chester Midsummer Watch Parade

Despite the cancellation of the mystery plays in 1575, (although they were performed again in 1578) and the banning of the midsummer parade in 1600 by the Protestant mayor, Henry Hardware, the tradition was revived by the next mayor Robert Brerewood, but without the devil in feathers and the naked boys.

Compsognathidae

Compsognathids lie at or near the origin of feathers—skin impressions are known from four genera, Compsognathus, Sinosauropteryx, Sinocalliopteryx, and Juravenator.

Crinkle-collared Manucode

This species resembles the Jobi Manucode in appearance, distinguished by its bronzed yellow-green neck feathers.

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

X's feathers are still the same darker shade of blue as they were in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

Depend on Me

Comedian Doug Chappel has a cameo appearance as Kaylie's father at the end of the music video to find the girls bedroom full of feathers from the pillow fights.

Disodium pyrophosphate

When added to the scalding water, it facilitates removal of hair and scurf in hog slaughter and feathers and scurf in poultry slaughter.

Evelyn Lambart

She used this technique in seven award-winning films: Fine Feathers (1968), The Hoarder (1969), Paradise Lost (1970), The Story of Christmas (1973), Mr. Frog Went A-Courting (1974), The Lion and the Mouse (1976) and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse/Le Rat de maison et le Rat des champs (1980).

Federfechter

In their Deutsches Wörterbuch, the Brothers Grimm hold it plausible that it derives from the custom of pinning feathers to one's hat or lance, but the coat of arms accorded to the brotherhood by Rudolf II displays two arms each holding a quill (schreibfeder), inducing the Grimms to speculate that the brotherhood may merely have originated as the fencing guild of the professional scribes.

Fèngchìzǐjinguān

Fèngchìzǐjinguān or phoenix feather cap, or more appropriately the crown of the feathers of the Fenghuang, was one of the treasures of the dragon kings that is obtained by Sun Wukong in the story Journey to the West.

Fly tying

Rabbit, mink, muskrat, fox, bear, squirrel and other furs, deer, elk, moose hair and chicken, pheasant, turkey, duck, goose and partridge feathers were and still are commonly incorporated into artificial flies.

Four Feather Falls

The four feathers of the title refers to four magical feathers given to Tex by the Indian chief Kalamakooya as a reward for saving his grandson: two allowed Tex's guns to swivel and fire without being touched whenever he was in danger, and two conferred the power of speech on Tex's horse and dog.

Frill-necked Monarch

The Frill-necked Monarch measures around 14 cm (5.5 in) in length, and the neck feathers can become erect into a small frill; the male is predominantly black and white, and can be distinguished from the similar and more common Pied Monarch by its all-white breast-the latter species having a broad black breast band.

Golden-fronted Leafbird

It has an orange forehead and blue moustachial line, but lacks the blue flight feathers and tail sides of Blue-winged Leafbird.

Grey-headed Kingfisher

In appearance very like the Brown-hooded Kingfisher but with a red rather than red and black bill and similar to the Woodland Kingfisher, but the Woodland Kingfisher lacks the chestnut belly and has greater coverage of cyan feathers on the back.

Harry Parr-Davies

In 1944, his musical, Jenny Jones, which had a Welsh setting, was a flop, but it was followed by the successful revue Fine Feathers (1945), Her Excellency (1949) starring Cicely Courtneidge, and Dear Miss Phoebe (1950).

Hubie and Bertie

By the short's end, Claude thinks he's a lion, the dog believes he's a pelican, and a bystanding bird has pulled his feathers out and imagines himself a Thanksgiving turkey.

Jerdon's Bush Lark

It is very similar to the Indian Bush Lark (M. erythroptera) but has buffy lores, less white behind ear coverts, darker centre to wing coverts and central tail feathers.

Jobi Manucode

This species resembles the Crinkle-collared Manucode in appearance, distinguished by its neck feathers and by having a shorter tail than the latter species.

Karoo Chat

This species is paler than the similar grey form of the female Mountain Wheatear, from which it also differs in having a grey (not white) rump and completely white outer tail feathers.

Land of the Innocent

"Land of the Innocent" is the first track on the 2013 full-length If All Now Here by the American electronic/synth band Feathers.

Lawrence M. Small

In 2004, Small pleaded guilty to violating federal bird-protection laws (ESA, CITES, MBTA) by owning Amazonian tribal artifacts that contained feathers of protected bird species.

Lesser Grey Shrike

It is built by both birds out of the stems of various flowering plants such as cudweed (Gnaphalium) and (Filago), and thyme (Thymus), and lined with whisps of wool, hairs, roots and feathers.

Longisquama

Feather development expert Richard Prum and also Reisz and Sues see the structures as anatomically very different from feathers, and think they are elongate, ribbon-like scales.

Mamu

The Tulkubara, or "The Cassowary Tribe", distinguished themselved by their head-dresses that consisted of red and yellow feathers.

Mark Norell

Mark Norell is the direct discoverer of enigmatic theropods Shuvuuia and Mononykus, the discovery of Ukhaa Tolgod, the richest Cretaceous fossil locality in the world, the first embryo of a theropod dinosaur, the description of dinosaurs with feathers, and the first indication of dinosaur nesting.

Maug Islands

In 1903, the island was leased to a Japanese company, who hunted birds for feathers for export to Japan, and from there to Paris.

MV Treasure oil spill

The 12-week rehabilitation process, which cared for over 20,000 birds, required over 130 international team members supervising over 45,000 volunteers, 400 tons of fish to feed the penguins, 7,000 tons of beach sand used in bird pens, and 302 25-liter containers of Detergent used to wash the oil off the penguins' feathers.

Pi2 Cygni

It has the traditional name Pennae Caudalis, which is Latin for "Tail Feathers" (of Cygnus the Swan).

Preston Plucknett

The village is included in The Meaning of Liff (defined as "a very large string bag made of thin strong cord into which feathers from freshly killed ducks and chickens were stuffed, from Preston in Lancashire".

Quill

Goose feathers are most commonly used; scarcer, more expensive swan feathers are used for larger lettering.

Sagitta

α Sge: also known as Sham, this yellow bright giant star of spectral class G1 II (with 4.37m) lies at a distance of 610 light-years and together with β Sge (also 4.37m) forms either the feathers of the shaft or the two-pointed arrow once used in the Roman army.

Soconusco

In 1486, Aztec emperor Ahuitzotl conquered it; the area was then required to send cotton clothing, bird feathers, jaguar skins and cacao as tributes.

Supercock

Supercock (also known as Bet to Kill and A Fistful of Feathers) is a 1975 comedy film directed by Gus Trikonis and starring Ross Hagen, both of whom were involved in the 1969 cult film The Sidehackers.

Takutea

Copra cutters from Atiu visit once a year to cut coconuts from the trees, and a quantity of the tail feathers of the tropic birds.

The Corrs: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Mick Fleetwood join The Corrs on Stage For Dreams, Haste To The Wedding and Toss The Feathers.

The Zulus

They played in an all black kit and decorated themselves with beads and feathers and, instead of using their own names, they adopted Zulu names such as Ulmathoosi.

White-fronted Amazon

Together with the Red-spectacled Amazon and the Yellow-lored Amazon, it is the only Amazon species in which adult males and females easily can be distinguished by external appearance (sexual dimorphism): Males have bright red feathers on their "shoulders" (alula), while females have green "shoulders".

White-winged Flufftail

In flight both sexes also show distinctive white secondary feathers, a feature shared only with the related genus Coturnicops.

Witch's ladder

When Charles Godfrey Leland received news of the Wellington find whilst in Italy, he investigated and found that the witches there used a similar form, called a "witches garland"; the item was made of cord, and contained black hen feathers.

Without Feathers

The title "Without Feathers" is a reference to Emily Dickinson's poem "'Hope' Is the Thing with Feathers", reflecting Woody Allen's neurotic sense of hopelessness.


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