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).
 * Postocular stripe
 * Remiges
 * Rump
 * Spectacles
 * Submoustachial stripe
 * Supercilium
 * Supraloral


 * Parts of the tail include:
 * Retrices
 * Tail corner
 * Terminal band
 * Subterminal band


 * Throat
 * Undertail coverts
 * Upper mandible (or maxilla)
 * Uppertail coverts
 * Vent 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
 * Terial step (on gulls)
 * Trailing edge of wing
 * Upper scapulars
 * Wing bar
 * Wing coverts
 * Wing edging
 * Wing linings
 * Wing tip

Bare-parts features

 * Beak or bill
 * Cere
 * Culmen
 * Gape
 * Gonys
 * Gonydeal angle
 * Gonydeal spot
 * Nail (of beak)
 * Nares
 * Rhamphotheca
 * Gnathotheca
 * Rhinotheca
 * Tomia
 * Comb, or Coxcomb
 * Orbital skin
 * Tarsus
 * Tibia
 * Wattle