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The retrices are the birds tail feathers, but not just any tail feathers, only the stronger ones that help direct the birds flight.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Dresler101 2010
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The retrices are the birds tail feathers, but not just any tail feathers, only the stronger ones that help direct the birds flight.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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The retrices are the birds tail feathers, but not just any tail feathers, only the stronger ones that help direct the birds flight.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Dresler101 2010
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This cisticola has a black back thus its alternative common name with rufous wing panels and a grey tail with prominent sub-terminal spots and white tips on the retrices.
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Finally, the lower parts, abdomen, sides, and thighs, are pale gray, and the remiges and retrices are black.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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Overhead was a sky of matchless, cloudless blue, and sailing to and fro on motionless wing were numbers of tropic birds, their long scarlet retrices showing in startling contrast to their snow-white body plumage.
Concerning "Bully" Hayes From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 Louis Becke 1884
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Their plumage is of a wondrously bright snow white, with the exception of the primary and secondary feathers of the wings, and the _retrices_ or tail feathers, which are of a glossy black.
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884
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The singular form of retrices is rectrix which comes from the Latin word oar used to mean rower.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Dresler101 2010
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The singular form of retrices is rectrix which comes from the Latin word oar used to mean rower.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Dresler101 2010
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The singular form of retrices is rectrix which comes from the Latin word oar used to mean rower.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
reesetee commented on the word retrices
Flight feathers in the tails of most modern birds. (Singular is retrix.)
September 24, 2007