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The peacock has colorful plumage.
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But look closely, and the plumage on the right has a bit more reddish-brown saturation.
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Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
Flightless groups such as penguins shed large patches of plumage at once.
—science.org, 3 July 2024
Female wild turkeys are smaller, with more muted brown plumage.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Each time, the bird photographed had similar pinkish, gray plumage, indicating the bird was not a juvenile, but not quite an adult either, said Healy, a high school biology teacher.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 9 June 2024
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Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
Flightless groups such as penguins shed large patches of plumage at once.
—science.org, 3 July 2024
Female wild turkeys are smaller, with more muted brown plumage.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Each time, the bird photographed had similar pinkish, gray plumage, indicating the bird was not a juvenile, but not quite an adult either, said Healy, a high school biology teacher.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 9 June 2024
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plumage
noun
plum·age
ˈplü-mij 
: the feathers of a bird
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