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Great Horned Owl (also known as Tiger Owl or Hoot Owl) - Bubo virginianus

Great Horned Owl (also known as Tiger Owl or Hoot Owl)

Primary flight feather, likely outer primary
Red-tailed Hawk (Red-tail) - Buteo jamaicensis

Red-tailed Hawk (Red-tail)

Flight feather (remige, likely a primary or secondary flight feather)
Great Horned Owl (also known as the Tiger Owl or Hoot Owl) - Bubo virginianus

Great Horned Owl (also known as the Tiger Owl or Hoot Owl)

Primary flight feather, likely a middle or outer secondary/primary transition or large body covert
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted Flicker, Common Flicker) - Colaptes auratus

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted Flicker, Common Flicker)

Contour feather (Body/Flank contour feather)
Red-tailed Hawk (Hen Harrier, Buzzard) - Buteo jamaicensis

Red-tailed Hawk (Hen Harrier, Buzzard)

Primary flight feather, outer-middle primary
Mourning Dove (Carolina Dove, American Mourning Dove) - Zenaida macroura

Mourning Dove (Carolina Dove, American Mourning Dove)

Semiplume or loose contour body feather, breast or flank region
Red-tailed Hawk (Red-tail) - Buteo jamaicensis

Red-tailed Hawk (Red-tail)

Contour feather, likely from the upper wing coverts or mantle
Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) - Bubo virginianus

Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)

Contour feather or secondary body/flank covert feather with soft plumulaceous base
Great Horned Owl (also known as the Tiger Owl or Hoot Owl) - Bubo virginianus

Great Horned Owl (also known as the Tiger Owl or Hoot Owl)

Contour body feather or secondary covert
Great Horned Owl (Hoot Owl, Tiger Owl) - Bubo virginianus

Great Horned Owl (Hoot Owl, Tiger Owl)

Contour feather, likely a body or flank feather with semiplume base
Mallard (Wild Duck) - Anas platyrhynchos

Mallard (Wild Duck)

Contour feather or secondary covert
Mallard (Wild Duck) - Anas platyrhynchos

Mallard (Wild Duck)

Secondary or primary flight feather (remex), likely an inner primary or outer secondary
Black-billed Magpie - Pica hudsonia

Black-billed Magpie

Contour body or upper scapular/wing covert feather
Red-tailed Hawk (Chestnut-bellied or Light Morph Variant) - Buteo jamaicensis

Red-tailed Hawk (Chestnut-bellied or Light Morph Variant)

Contour feather, likely from the upper breast, flank, or mantle
Mourning Dove (Carolina Dove, American Mourning Dove) - Zenaida macroura

Mourning Dove (Carolina Dove, American Mourning Dove)

Semiplume or loose contour feather from the breast/flank region
Mute Swan (White Swan) - Cygnus olor

Mute Swan (White Swan)

Contour feather, body feather with semiplume base
Ring-billed Gull (Common Gull, Winter Gull) - Larus delawarensis

Ring-billed Gull (Common Gull, Winter Gull)

Contour feather, likely a body covert or scapular
Red-tailed Hawk (also known as the chicken hawk or red hawk) - Buteo jamaicensis

Red-tailed Hawk (also known as the chicken hawk or red hawk)

Secondary flight feather (remiges)
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) - Colaptes auratus

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)

Contour body feather
Ring-billed Gull (Common Gull, Sea Gull) - Larus delawarensis

Ring-billed Gull (Common Gull, Sea Gull)

Semiplume or soft body contour feather
Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) - Bubo virginianus

Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)

Body Contour / Flank or Breast Feather with specialized plumulaceous structure
Great Horned Owl (Hoot Owl, Tiger Owl) - Bubo virginianus

Great Horned Owl (Hoot Owl, Tiger Owl)

Body contour feather or soft flank feather, showing owl-specific plumulaceous modifications
Common Ostrich - Struthio camelus

Common Ostrich

Plumaceous body contour feather or wing plume
Mute Swan (White Swan) - Cygnus olor

Mute Swan (White Swan)

Semiplume / Contour feather transition with downy base
Mallard (Wild Duck, Common Mallard) - Anas platyrhynchos

Mallard (Wild Duck, Common Mallard)

Contour body feather
Wild Turkey (Eastern Wild Turkey) - Meleagris gallopavo

Wild Turkey (Eastern Wild Turkey)

Contour feather, likely a body or covert feather
Great Horned Owl (Hoot Owl, Tiger Owl) - Bubo virginianus

Great Horned Owl (Hoot Owl, Tiger Owl)

Contour feather, specifically from the facial disc or upper breast mantle
Wild Turkey - Meleagris gallopavo

Wild Turkey

Body Contour / Breast Feather
Mallard (Wild Duck) - Anas platyrhynchos

Mallard (Wild Duck)

Semiplume or Body Contour Feather with plumulaceous base
Indian Peafowl, Blue Peacock, Common Peacock - Pavo cristatus

Indian Peafowl, Blue Peacock, Common Peacock

Semiplume / Specialized Body Contour Feather
Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) - Bubo virginianus

Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)

Contour body feather
Ring-necked Pheasant (Common Pheasant) - Phasianus colchicus

Ring-necked Pheasant (Common Pheasant)

Contour body feather, likely from the flank or rump region
Indian Peafowl (Blue Peafowl, Peacock) - Pavo cristatus

Indian Peafowl (Blue Peafowl, Peacock)

Body Contour Feather with Iridescent Tip
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted form), Common Flicker, Yellow-shafted Woodpecker - Colaptes auratus

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted form), Common Flicker, Yellow-shafted Woodpecker

Contour or semiplume body feather, likely from the breast, flank, or back
Indian Peafowl, Common Peacock, Blue Peacock - Pavo cristatus

Indian Peafowl, Common Peacock, Blue Peacock

Body Contour Feather with specialized iridescent ocellus (eye spot) tip
Indian Peafowl (Blue Peacock) - Pavo cristatus

Indian Peafowl (Blue Peacock)

Body contour feather / breast or neck covert with distinctive ocellated tip
Helmeted Guineafowl - Numida meleagris

Helmeted Guineafowl

Contour body feather, likely from the neck, mantle, or upper breast region
Indian Peafowl (Blue Peafowl, Peacock) - Pavo cristatus

Indian Peafowl (Blue Peafowl, Peacock)

Modified upper tail covert (train feather / eye feather)
Mute Swan (White Swan) - Cygnus olor

Mute Swan (White Swan)

Flight feather, likely a primary or secondary remige
Eurasian Magpie (Common Magpie) - Pica pica

Eurasian Magpie (Common Magpie)

Flight feather (likely a wing covert or secondary flight feather)
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted Flicker, Common Flicker) - Colaptes auratus

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted Flicker, Common Flicker)

Flight feather, likely a primary or secondary wing covert, or a small flight/tail feather
Red-tailed Hawk (Redtail) - Buteo jamaicensis

Red-tailed Hawk (Redtail)

Tail feather (retrix)