Orange-breasted waxbill
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The orange-breasted waxbill, also known as the zebra waxbill, is a small sparrow-like bird with a reddish iris, orange breast, red bill and dark olive-green plumage. The male has a red rump, dark bars
Egg, Collection Museum Wiesbaden
A male, photographed at Cedara farm, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Amandava subflava by Ann Lee
Plumage
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Plumage, or feathering, is a layer of feathers that covers a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers. The pattern and colours of plumage differ between species and subspecies a
Close-up view of the plumage on a house sparrow
Mandarin duck (male) in eclipse plumage
The differences in plumage of a blue grosbeak, from top to bottom, between a breeding male ("alternate" plumage), a non-breeding male ("basic" plumage), a female, and the related indigo bunting.
An incomplete leucistic common blackbird.