Plumage

The plumage on that peacock is amazing.

The bird has beautiful plumage.

Young Love obeys, and doffs his plumage light, / and, like Iulus, trips forth with delight.

This bird has a bright plumage.

In the wild, a well-fed flamingo is likely to have more vibrantly coloured plumage, which will more readily attract a mate.

Tawny owls are well camouflaged by the colour of their plumage.

Tawny owls have a grey or brown plumage.

Siskins have a yellow plumage.

Hummingbird plumage is very beautiful.

Mating season for some bird species can be identified by the bright colors of the males' plumage.

In some few cases the young in their first plumage differ from each other according to sex; the young males resembling more or less closely the adult males, and the young females more or less closely the adult females.

Somewhat like a heron she was, but stouter, and shorter of leg, and her beak shorter and thicker than the heron’s; and so long and delicate was her pale gray plumage that hard it was to say whether it were hair or feathers.

[Owner]: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage! [Mr. Praline]: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.