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Bird Feather Care Guide: Preening Techniques and Maintenance Tips

Discover the importance of preening for birds in different climates, molting feathers, and nest incubation. Learn about oiling, bathing, sunning, and feather development stages.

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Bird Feather Care Guide: Preening Techniques and Maintenance Tips

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  1. Feather Care

  2. Preening 1

  3. Preening: Seasonality (Temperate Zone) 9 8

  4. Preening: Tropics versus Temperate

  5. Preening: Molting Feathers

  6. Preening: Nest Incubation 11 10

  7. 12 Allopreening 14 13

  8. Oiling Chicken Pigeon Oil Gland (= Uropygial Gland) (= Preen Gland)

  9. Oiling? 17 16 48 18 19

  10. Oiling Wood-Hoopoe

  11. Head-Scratching 6 7

  12. Bathing

  13. Bathing: Air, Snow

  14. Bathing: Consequences for a Wet Bird

  15. Bathing: Dust 24 25 26

  16. Sunning 27

  17. Sunning ?

  18. Anting Passive Active ? ?

  19. Feather Development Pin Feathers Proctor and Lynch 1994, p. 87

  20. Feather Development I: Feather Papilla and Follicle Development Fgi. 3.24 in Podulka et al. 2004

  21. Feather Development II: Epidermal Collar (= Follicle Collar) and Dermal Papilla Development Fig. 4-8 in Gill 2008

  22. Feather Development III: Feather Sheath and Barb Development Fig. 3-24 in Podulka et al. 2004

  23. Feather Development IV: Calamus Development and Feather Emergence Proctor and Lynch 1994, p. 87

  24. Feather Development V: Severing the Connection Proctor and Lynch 1993, p. 83

  25. Feather Molt; Feather Color

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