tail feather
Avian steering plume
A tail feather is one of the long, stiff feathers at the rear of a bird, used for steering and balance during flight.
Tail feathers are often the most colorful or distinctive—peacock tail feathers, for instance.
In plural, tail feathers sometimes appears as playful slang for the buttocks: Shake your tail feathers.
- plumeOrnamental feather or rising column
- quillFeather used for writing
- flightAerial journey by aircraft
- birdFeathered flying vertebrate
- bird of paradiseOrnate tropical species
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