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Meaning of "wing coverts"
Wing coverts are feathers that cover the wings of birds. They are located on the upper surface of the wings and help provide protection, insulation, and streamlined aerodynamics during flight. Wing coverts are typically shorter and more rigid than other types of feathers
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The wing coverts have white tips.
The belly and under wing coverts are white.
The wing coverts have conspicuous white spots.
The secondary feathers and wing coverts may have gray margins.
Grey wing coverts and tertials have a white trim.
Both have grey stippling on long scapulars and upper wing coverts.
The wing coverts are silvery.
The feathers on the back and the wing coverts have pale margins.
The wing coverts have white and rufous patches.
The tips of the median and greater wing coverts have little white spots.
Wing coverts and remiges are bordered in a paler or warmer tone.
The whole bird is pure white except for the wing coverts which are colored.
The inner wing coverts were brownish and were spotted with white.
The wings are blackish with distinct yellow edging to the wing coverts and tertials.
The mantle and the wing coverts are more reddish brown at peripheries.
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There is white spots from the chest to the abdomen and on the wing coverts.
The primary wing coverts are also unusually long and give a fringed appearance.
These have brown edges towards the scapulars and whiter edges towards the wing coverts.
The wing coverts are a distinctive chestnut colour with some white bars.
Fledged juveniles moult some of their wing coverts when they are about eight weeks old.
Their wing coverts are lighter than the remiges and covered in fine dark barring.
The throat is white, and the wing coverts clearly spotted.
Its head and wing coverts are pale brown and contrast with the generally dark plumage.
The rest of the body is grey, with olive wing coverts and collar.
The lesser wing coverts are distinctively dark and white-tipped.
The back and wings are dark, with white on wing coverts and rump.
The back and wing coverts are dark green, reflecting dark blue.
The female has pea-green body plumage apart from the brown wing coverts.
The upper wing coverts are white, while its speculum is an iridescent green.
The immense fans, lined with eyespots, are the greatly elongated feathers of his wing coverts.
The under wing coverts are bright yellow, although the extent of this is variable.
The golden-olive remiges are typically covered by the long orange wing coverts when perched.
On the wing coverts is a row of feathers that are a paler blue-gray with maroon tips.
The species ' common name comes from the sky-blue wing coverts.
Greater and lesser wing coverts always white-tipped, but the secondaries with or without white edging.
The back and wing coverts ( feathers covering the base of its flight-feathers ) are black.
