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The following is a list of terms used in bird topography:

Plumage features

External anatomy of a typical bird: 1 Beak, 2 Head, 3 Iris, 4 Pupil, 5 Mantle, 6 Lesser coverts, 7 Scapulars, 8 Coverts, 9 Tertials, 10 Rump, 11 Primaries, 12 Vent, 13 Thigh, 14 Tibio-tarsal articulation, 15 Tarsus, 16 Feet, 17 Tibia, 18 Belly, 19 Flanks, 20 Breast, 21 Throat, 22 Wattle, 23 Eyestripe

Topography of a typical passerine.

Back
Belly
Breast
Cheek
Chin
Crest
Crown
Crown patch
Ear-coverts
Eye-ring
Eyestripe (or eye line)
Feather, see category: Category:Feathers
Flanks
Forecrown
Gorget
Hood (or half-hood^[1])
Lateral throat stripe
Lores
Malar
Mantle
Mask
Moustachial stripe
Nape
Nuchal collar^[1]
Operculum (on pigeons).^[2]
Pennaceous feathers
Postocular stripe
Remiges
Rump
Spectacles
Submoustachial stripe
Supercilium
Supraloral
Parts of the tail include:
- Rectrices
- Tail corner^[1]
- Terminal band^[1]
  - Subterminal band^[1]
Throat
Undertail coverts
Upper mandible (or maxilla)
Uppertail coverts
Vent, crissum or cloaca
- Vent band^[3]
Parts of the wings include:
- Alula
- Apical spot^[3]
- Axillar
- Bend of wing
- Carpal covert
- Emargination^[3]
- Greater coverts
- Leading edge of wing^[1]
- Lesser coverts
- Marginal coverts
- Median coverts
- Mirror (on gulls)
- Primaries
  - Primary projection
  - Primary numbers (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.)^[3]
- Scapulars
  - Scapular crescent (on gulls)^[3]
- Secondaries
- Speculum
- Tertials
  - Tertial step (on gulls)^[3]
- Trailing edge of wing^[1]
- Upper scapulars^[3]
- Wing bar
- Wing coverts
- Wing edging^[1]
- Wing linings^[1]
- Wing tip or point (denoted by the number of the longest primary, counted from the carpal joint)^[4]

Bare-parts features

Beak or bill
- Cere
- Culmen
- Gape
- Gonys
  - Gonydeal angle
  - Gonydeal spot
- Nail (of beak)
- Nares
- Rhamphotheca
  - Gnathotheca
  - Rhinotheca
- Tomia
Brooding patch
Caruncle (bird anatomy)
Comb, or Coxcomb
Orbital skin,^[1] or orbital ring
Tarsus
Tibia
Wattle

See also

Glossary of bird terms

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Garrigues, Richard & Dean, Robert (2007). Birds of Costa Rica. Zona Tropical Publication. ISBN 978-0-8014-4587-3.
^ Zimmerman, Dale A.; Turner, Donald A.; Pearson, David J. (1999). Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01022-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Dunn, Jon L. & Alderfer, Jonathan (2006). National Geographic Guide to the Birds of North America. National Geographic Society. ISBN 1-4262-0072-2.
^ de Beer, S. J.; Lockwood, G. M.; Raijmakers, J. H. F. A.; Raijmakers, J. M. H.; Scott, W. A.; Oschadleus, H. D.; Underhill, L. G. (July 2001). SAFRING Bird Ringing Manual (ADU Guide 5), 6 The bird in the hand, 6.1 Glossary (PDF). Cape Town: Avian Demography Unit. p. 44-46. Retrieved 17 March 2017.

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