List of terms used in bird topography
The following is a list of terms used in bird topography:
Plumage features
- Back
- Belly
- Breast
- Cheek
- Chin
- Crest
- Crown
- Crown patch
- Ear-coverts
- Eye-ring
- Eyestripe
- Feather, see category: :Category:Feathers
- Flanks
- Forecrown
- Gorget
- Hood
- Lateral throat stripe
- Lores
- Malar
- Mantle
- Mask
- Moustachial stripe
- Nape
- Nuchal collar
- Operculum.
- Pennaceous feathers
- Postocular stripe
- Remiges
- Rump
- Spectacles
- Submoustachial stripe
- Supercilium
- Supraloral
- Parts of the tail include:
- *Rectrices
- * Tail corner
- * Terminal band
- **Subterminal band
- Throat
- Undertail coverts
- Upper mandible
- Uppertail coverts
- Vent, crissum or cloaca
- * Vent band
- Parts of the wings include:
- * Alula
- * Apical spot
- * Axillar
- * Bend of wing
- * Carpal covert
- * Emargination
- * Greater coverts
- * Leading edge of wing
- * Lesser coverts
- * Marginal coverts
- * Median coverts
- * Mirror
- * Primaries
- ** Primary projection
- ** Primary numbers
- * Scapulars
- ** Scapular crescent
- * Secondaries
- * Speculum
- * Tertials
- ** Tertial step
- * Trailing edge of wing
- * Upper scapulars
- * Wing bar
- * Wing coverts
- * Wing edging
- * Wing linings
- * Wing tip or point