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Cormorant in a typical pose of drying its wings after diving (Lake Como, Italy)
Intriguing blue feathers on the male peacock's head
Western Crowned Pigeon in Geneva, Switzerland.
Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise in Geneva, Switzerland.
Look at me!
A colourful bird runs across the way
Another colourful bird in the green
A white peacock on the isle "Isola Bella"
White Peacock
Marabou in back light
Great White Pelican
Juvenile European Sea Eagle
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Group of mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) on Borovice pond, Czech Republic
Written with a feather
Street pigeon
Lost feather
A feather caught on a thermometer
Colorful Jianzi
Feathers came out from the cloth
Ringed young sparrow hawks (Accipiter nisus). Location, Natuurterrein The Famberhorst in the Netherlands.
Victoria crowned pigeon
Grey Heron taking off
peacock
Mallard Duck on it's Nest
Mallard Duck
Paola Pivi’s feathered polar bear as part of the exhibition "We are animals" at Kunsthal Rotterdam 2021
three hens from behind
thumb
Swan feather floating on the water of the Baltic Sea (Grabower Bodden)
Colle Tsa Sètse in Cogne Valley (Italy) Geese high in the mountains.
Geese at the Kirbachhof, Ochsenbach, Germany
Featherlike clouds dancing over Læsø island, Denmark
Rooster with green and black feathers, Veßra Monastery Museum, Werratal, Germany
Feather of common gull, Ervik, Selje, Norway
Bird feather in the grass. Location, The Famberhorst.
Gocce di pioggia su una piuma
Sfumature di azzurro su una piuma di Ghiandaia (Garrulus glandarius)
Disegni marroni su una piuma
Detail of pale white dove feather - horizontal rhachis and gap between barbs - DSG2033-1 - 2021-04-04 (focus stack, HiRes)
Domestic goose (Anser anser domesticus) in the Schwetzingen palace garden
Two parrots (Ara ararauna) and (Ara chloroptera) in the beach bar of Cala Llombards
Blackbird ♂ (Turdus merula) at the cemetery of Nieblum
Chicken ♂ (Gallus gallus domesticus) in a pen
The Poultry Seller (detail) by Vincenzo Campi, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera
am Hafen in Langenargen schwebt die weiße Feder
By hawk (Accipiter nisus) killed wood pigeon (Columba palumbus). Location, Natuurterrein The Famberhorst.
Hollandse Hout, nature reserve in Flevoland. swans.
Rooster tail feathers after the Russian missile attack
The crown of peacock
Black-faced bunting
Color riot
Close enough
In swag
Birds of the same feather flocked together
Spreading Wings
Writing on sun
Peacock tail
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Eichelhäherfeder, 2020
Durch Ahornblatt gespießte Vogelfeder, Sachsen, Pirna, 2011
Schreibfeder auf Stehpult, Sachsen, Königstein (Sächsische Schweiz), 2009
Lachmöwe in Landeanflug
Common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis). Window victim. This kingfisher has flown against a window and has broken its neck. The bird is photographed on the spot where it was found and not moved. The photo has not been staged!
Two pigeon feathers
Three mallard (wild duck) feathers
The pigeon feather in hand
The pigeon ready to fly out
Detail of a peacock feather
Close up photo of a feather dropped likely by a duck in Maine
Solitary ear hoop in the shape of a dreamcatcher
Salmon flies on feather material
Cogne Valley (Italy) Chickens high in the mountains.