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| 1. Often applied to the whole of the top of the head, including the forehead and the upper part of the nape. However, it most often refers to the very top of the head between these two areas. |
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| 2. Feathers covering underside of base of tail. |
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| 3. The front part of the crown, extending down to the base of the bill. It may be distinctively coloured, as in the white (unfeathered) 'frontal shield' of the White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons. |
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| 4. Part of the tail farthest from the center. |
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| 5. A more or less prominent curving streak above a bird's eye, not to be confused with an eye line. A good example is found in the Redwing Turdus iliacus. |
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6. The outer flight feathers ('remiges') of a bird's wing, used chiefly in manoeuvring.
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7. A ring of colour around the eye, as seen, for example, in the male Blackbird Turdus merula.
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8. The part of a bird's exterior between the throat and the belly.
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| 9. A line 'through' a bird's eye, as seen, for example, in the Blue Tit Parus caeruleus. |
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| 10. The lowest part of the undersurface of a bird. |
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11. The back of a bird's head between the crown and the hind neck.
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12. The section of a bird's upperparts immediately above the upper tail coverts. It is often conspicuously coloured and so can be an important identification feature, for example in some types of wader.
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| 13. The upper portion of a bird's bill. They are bony outgrowths from the skull covered with horny sheaths of keratin. |
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14. A line across the wing contrasting in colour with the rest of it.
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15. The short feathers covering the ears, which have no external parts and are situated behind and slightly below the eyes.
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| 16. Feathers overlying bases of the scapulars. |
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| 17. The lower portion of a bird's bill. They are bony outgrowths from the skull covered with horny sheaths of keratin. |
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18. The inner flight feathers ('remiges') of a bird's wing, between the primary and tertiary feathers. They vary in number from nine to twenty, according to the type of bird, and they are embedded in the skin of the bird's 'forearm'. Their chief use is in propulsion.
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| 19. The part of a bird's exterior between the mantle and the rump, thus the middle part of the bird's upper surface. |
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| 20. The part of a bird's exterior immediately below the chin and above the breast. |
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| 21. The feathers which cover the shoulder of a bird, namely the area where the upperwing joins the body. |
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| 22. Feathers which cover the base of the tail. |
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| 23. Between the belly and the wing. |
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| 24. The side of a bird's belly, appearing immediately below the forepart of the closed wing. They may have a distinctive pattern or colour, as in the Water Rail Rallus acquaticus and Redwing Turdus iliacus respectively. |
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| 25. A streak extending backwards and downwards from the base of the bill, above the malar region, as seen in the Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus and the Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus. |
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| 26. The part of a bird's exterior immediately below the bill and above the throat. |
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