List of terms used in bird topography#Plumage features
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The following is a list of terms used in bird topography:
Plumage features
File:Birdmorphology.svg of a typical bird: 1 Beak, 2 Head, 3 Iris, 4 Pupil, 5 Mantle, 6 Lesser coverts, 7 Scapulars, 8 Coverts, 9 Tertials, 10 Rump, 11 Primaries, 12 Vent, 13 Thigh, 14 Tibio-tarsal articulation, 15 Tarsus, 16 Feet, 17 Tibia, 18 Belly, 19 Flanks, 20 Breast, 21 Throat, 22 Wattle, 23 Eyestripe
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- 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).{{cite book|last1=Zimmerman |first1 = Dale A. | last2 = Turner | first2 = Donald A. | last3 = Pearson | first3 = David J.|year=1999 |title=Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania|isbn=0-691-01022-6 |publisher=Princeton University Press}}
- 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.){{cite book|author1=Dunn, Jon L. |author2=Alderfer, Jonathan |name-list-style=amp|year=2006|title=National Geographic Guide to the Birds of North America|isbn=1-4262-0072-2|publisher=National Geographic Society}}
- 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{{cite book|author1=Garrigues, Richard |author2=Dean, Robert |name-list-style=amp|year=2007|title=Birds of Costa Rica|isbn=978-0-8014-4587-3|publisher=Zona Tropical Publication}}
- Wing tip or point (denoted by the number of the longest primary, counted from the carpal joint){{cite book|last1=de Beer|first1=S. J.|last2=Lockwood|first2=G. M.|last3=Raijmakers|first3=J. H. F. A.|last4=Raijmakers|first4=J. M. H.|last5=Scott|first5=W. A.|last6=Oschadleus|first6=H. D.|last7=Underhill|first7=L. G.|title=SAFRING Bird Ringing Manual (ADU Guide 5), 6 The bird in the hand, 6.1 Glossary|date=July 2001|publisher=Avian Demography Unit|location=Cape Town|page=44-46|url=http://safring.adu.org.za/downloads/ring-manual-06.pdf|accessdate=17 March 2017}}