These projecting, bristle-like tail feathers render it very easy to recognise the cock tailor bird in breeding plumage.
In breeding plumage, with short plumes on the back, extending three or four inches beyond the tips of the wings.
In breeding plumage, the sides of head and neck have tufts of filmy white feathers, eyes green, as they are in all cormorants.
In breeding plumage, this species has a tuft of black feathers on either side of the head.
This is much smaller than any others of our grebes; inbreeding plumage it most nearly resembles the following species, but the bill is black and sharply pointed.
Adult female in breeding plumage: Dark sooty brown more or less streaked on crown and back; chin and throat whitish or pinkish buff streaked with brown; faint superciliary stripe composed of narrow whitish streaks on sooty ground.
The blue spot on the nape on which Meyer relies to separate the Basilan birds is a minus quantity in our five specimens from that island, though they are in breeding plumage.
Birds in intermediate plumage present endless combinations of the breeding and non-breeding plumage.
The Kentish plovers which attain their breeding plumage in the plains of India are certainly much brighter in color than any which are seen in Europe.
Approximately one in ten birds seen was in breeding plumage, the rest being in winter or subadult plumages, which are indistinguishable in the field.
Two of our specimens, both males, are in worn breeding plumage and evidence no molt; another specimen, a female, is also in breeding plumage but is molting on the breast.
There are two specimens in the Museum, both in breeding plumage.
There are a male and female, in breeding plumage, in the Museum, and also one in winter plumage.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breeding plumage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
