The leading-edge comb stirs the air in a specific ... Not surprisingly, some of the most extreme feather adaptations are found in birds with the most extreme ecological specializations.

Then we clean and color the feathers before gluing them together to make boas, fans, and plumes. Our toughest customer is Big Bird. His tremendous costume uses feathers from the rear end of a ...

It's why this latest kerfuffle has ruffled their feathers. Snelling and Albertelli ... and Albertelli's ownership of the birds, they clipped the combs. They felt it made them look more like ...