coverts
Concealing undergrowth or plumage
Coverts are the smaller feathers that cover the bases of a bird's larger flight feathers, creating a smooth surface over the wings and tail.
Birdwatchers often note covert color patterns for identification: The wing coverts showed a distinctive white bar.
Separately, a covert is a thicket or dense undergrowth where animals hide—a sense now mainly literary or used in hunting contexts.
Bird's complete feather coat
- wingLimb enabling flight
- birdFeathered flying vertebrate
- tailRear animal appendage
- contourBounding line of shape
flight · down · quill · barb · molt · preening · avian · ornithology
Kept out of sight
- shelterProtected place or structure
- thicketDense shrub cluster
- underbrushDense low forest vegetation
- refugePlace of safety
game · hunting · camouflage · wildlife · dense · vegetation · hideout · secretive
plumage
Bird's complete feather coat
contour · flight · down · quill · barb · molt · preening · avian · ornithology · underwing
hidden
Kept out of sight
- shelterProtected place or structure
- thicketDense shrub cluster
- underbrushDense low forest vegetation
refuge · game · hunting · camouflage · wildlife · dense · vegetation · hideout · secretive · brush
- feathersfeather, feathers, plume, down feathers, quill
- bird anatomybeak, feathers, wings, tail feathers, wing feathers
- British huntingfox hunting, fox hunt, foxhound, foxhunting, deer hunt
- wing partswing, aileron, flap, winglet, primaries
- underpartsunderbelly, underside, belly, abdomen, bottom
- feather partsbarb, shaft, quill, vane, rachis
covertsprimaries
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flight feathers · secondaries · quills · wing feathers · pinions
- under the coversBeneath bed linens
- covering upHiding wrongdoing from others
- covered groundTerritory already addressed
- album coversVisual packaging for recordings
- covered wagonCanvas-roofed pioneer vehicle
- covered walkwayRoofed path for pedestrians
recover, uncover, covering, covered, discovery, covers, covert, uncovered, recovered