The Feather Atlas - Feather Identification and Scans (2024)

FAQs

Is there an app for feather identification? ›

Feather Gallery offers tools to identify bird species through its feathers by providing high-resolution scans of bird feathers. The app helps you if you are interested in lifting the secret about found feathers of different shapes and colors. Find out which feather belongs to which bird.

If you find feathers in nature, please appreciate, study, photograph them, and leave them where you found them. Under federal law, it is illegal to take them home. For more information, see FEATHERS AND THE LAW. Check Browse Scans to explore all the Feather Atlas scans, organized by taxonomic group, like owls or ducks.

The Identify Feather Tool allows you to easily search by pattern, color, size, position, and/or type of bird. Featherbase: Based in Germany, but covers birds from around the world. Illustrates both flight and body feathers. Most comprehensive online feather database with 1900+ species.

Visit the USFWS' feather atlas website to answer questions about the feather you found, including: pattern, color, size (length), position (tail or wing), and type of bird (for example, waterfowl, hawk, woodpecker).

The Audubon Bird Guide is a free and complete field guide to over 800 species of North American birds, right in your pocket. Built for all experience levels, it will help you identify the birds around you, keep track of the birds you've seen, and get outside to find new birds near you.

The Merlin Bird ID app can work its magic to identify about 400 different birds by their tune, and that audio feature was just added in June. The app was developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and launched in 2014. It's currently available for Android and iOS devices.

Google Lens: identify objects and learn about them.

In the search bar, tap Google Lens . Take or upload a photo to use for your search: To take a photo: Point to an object with your camera and tap Search . To upload an existing image: Under "Screenshots", select a photo.

Snap a photo of a bird, or pull one in from your camera roll, and Photo ID will offer a short list of possible matches. Photo ID works completely offline, so you can identify birds in the photos you take no matter where you are.

Goldfinch feathers show part of the yellow wing-bar on the secondary feathers, a white base and a white tip forming the wing's white trailing edge. The scientific name of the goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis, is an example of a tautonym, where the genus and specific name are the same.

What does a Cooper's Hawk feather look like? ›

Adults are steely blue-gray above with warm reddish bars on the underparts and thick dark bands on the tail. Juveniles are brown above and crisply streaked with brown on the upper breast, giving them a somewhat hooded look compared with young Sharp-shinned Hawks' more diffuse streaking.

These birds are gray and brown with white patches on both the bottoms and tops of their wings. Males, which weigh about as much as four tablespoons of sugar and sport a 14-inch-long wingspan, are slightly bigger than female mockingbirds. Females have slightly darker tail feathers than males.

This protects wild birds by preventing their killing by collectors and the commercial trade in their feathers, and extends to all feathers, regardless of how they were obtained. There is no exemption for molted feathers or those taken from road- or window-killed birds.

It turns out blue is one of the rarest pigments in nature. So, what's going on here? Well, there are two ways you can make a colour. The first is to use a pigment.

Yes it is illegal to possess any part of a wild bird and that includes the feathers. Years and years ago ladies wanted the feathers for their hats. This lead to thousands of migratory birds being slaughtered just for the feathers. Federal and state laws were passed that banned this activity.

If you refer to two people as birds of a feather, you mean that they have the same interests or are very similar. We're birds of a feather, you and me, Mr.

Identify Birds

Using the FeatherFlix identification function promotes careful observation. Colors - Select all the colors you see including accent colors, especially on plain birds such as sparrows. Size - The hummingbird icon covers birds up to 5 1/2” long, like chickadees, kinglets, warblers.

The possession of feathers and other parts of native North American birds without a permit is prohibited by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).

The primaries of eagles are pointed, and the outer ones have narrow tips created by emargination of the outer vane and a notch in the inner vane. Eagle primaries are asymmetrical, with the inner vanes much wider than the outer. The inner wing feathers (secondaries) are rounded and the vanes are more symmetrical.