Feather Care
1 Preening
8 9 Preening: Seasonality (Temperate Zone)
Preening: Tropics versus Temperate
Preening: Molting Feathers
Preening: Nest Incubation
Allopreening
Oil Gland (= Uropygial Gland) (= Preen Gland) Oiling PigeonChicken
Oiling: Function Wood-Hoopoe
Head-Scratching 6 7
Bathing
Bathing: Consequences for a Wet Bird
24 Bathing: Dust 25 26
27 Sunning
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Feather Development Pin Feathers Proctor and Lynch 1994, p. 87
Feather Development I: Feather Papilla and Follicle Development Fgi in Podulka et al. 2004
Feather Development II: Epidermal Collar (= Follicle Collar) and Dermal Papilla Development Fig. 4-8 in Gill 2008
Feather Development III: Feather Sheath and Barb Development Fig in Podulka et al. 2004
Feather Development IV: Calamus Development and Feather Emergence Proctor and Lynch 1994, p. 87
Pin Feathers
Proctor and Lynch 1993, p. 83 Feather Development V: Severing the Connection
Feather Molt; Feather Color