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Title Bird topography: the closed wing Ornithos
Author Marc Duquet
Language French
Magazine Ornithos, vol. 16, no. 2, 2009
Page 100 - 111
Contents


Original title in French: Topographie de l’oiseau. L’aile pliée : rémiges, couvertures, barres alaires, projection primaire

Summary in English:
Through a series of photographs, this paper presents the different tracts of feathers visible on the folded wing of various birds: primaries, secondaries, tertials, alula, lesser, median, greater and primary coverts. Wing-bars and primary projection are also explained and shown.

 
Contents of this issue:

- Severe Atlantic storms produce seabird influx in France en January 2009
- First breeding of Pygmy Owl in the Auvergne (central France)
- Bird topography: the closed wing
- Identification of Kumlien’s Gull
- Hotspots. Lys valley (Nord, France and Hainaut, Belgium)
- Note: First breeding of Common Kingfisher in Paris
- Note: Winter record of Pectoral Sandpiper in eastern France
- Note: Wintering of a Wood Sandpiper in central France


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