Feathers are a bird’s most precious possession - beautiful and complex structures that give the gift of flight and insulate their bodies. However, after about a year, these delicate structures wear out. Even with careful preening, the feathers get frazzled and crimped from the wear and tear of ordinary activity. In this article, I put detailed stuff that most bird owners probably don’t care about in a smaller, italicized font . Even then, this article may be a yawn to most parrot owners - I got deeper into feathers than most veterinarians do during my days at SeaWorld. I focused this article on parrots. But since no scientific experiments use parrots as their subjects, I have had to use my personal observations and to reach out for information to birds that have been studied. Fortunately, the basic mechanisms and life processes are very similar between birds. Current research on how feathers develop is centered at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Arizon...
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Feathers are a bird’s most precious possession - beautiful and complex structures that give the gift of flight and insulate their bodies. However, after about a year, these delicate structures wear out. Even with careful preening, the feathers get frazzled and crimped from the wear and tear of ordinary activity. In this article, I put detailed stuff that most bird owners probably don’t care about in a smaller, italicized font . Even then, this article may be a yawn to most parrot owners - I got deeper into feathers than most veterinarians do during my days at SeaWorld. I focused this article on parrots. But since no scientific experiments use parrots as their subjects, I have had to use my personal observations and to reach out for information to birds that have been studied. Fortunately, the basic mechanisms and life processes are very similar between birds. Current research on how feathers develop is centered at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Arizon...