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 (or eye line)
Feather, see category: Category:Feathers
Flanks
Forecrown
Gorget
Hood (or half-hood)
Lateral throat stripe
Lores
Malar
Mantle
Mask
Moustachial stripe
Nape
Nuchal collar
Operculum (on pigeons).
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 (or maxilla)
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 (on gulls)
- Primaries
  - Primary projection
  - Primary numbers (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.)
- Scapulars
  - Scapular crescent (on gulls)
- Secondaries
- Speculum
- Tertials
  - Tertial step (on gulls)
- Trailing edge of wing
- Upper scapulars
- Wing bar
- Wing coverts
- Wing edging
- Wing linings
- Wing tip or point (denoted by the number of the longest primary, counted from the carpal joint)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 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.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.