are birds live plucked for down?
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A portion of the world's supply of down feathers are plucked from live birds, a practice condemned as cruel by animal welfare groups. ... Although live-plucking is illegal in Canada, the United States and Europe, it is known to occur in two European countries (Poland and Hungary) and in China.
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Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Your Quaker is molting. Molting is a natural and necessary occurrence for birds to replace old, and/or damaged feathers with new ones. That's it!
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Down comforters are made from the light, fluffy clusters and plumules that come from beneath the feathers of ducks and geese. The quality of down can be determined by the fill power or loft. Fill power is defined as the amount of down per ounce.
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Just like a fingernail, a bird's beak will continue to grow throughout their lives and need to be worn down. This keratin sometimes becomes flaky which is a normal part of the molting of the outer layers of keratin; this molting allows new keratin to develop as the old keratin is worn off.
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Pecking, also called picking, is almost always the result of high stress levels. When that happens, the birds will sometimes pluck each others' feathers out, and can really hurt one another. Those lowest in the pecking order may have bare spots on their backs or their heads.
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When a bird hovers, it is flying, but not moving through the air; when a bird windhovers, it is flying through the air, but it is flying upwind at the same speed as the wind. ... Strictly, windhovering is not hovering, but it is an interesting tactic used by some birds to temporarily hang over one spot.
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Eider down: This is considered to be the ultimate in duck down; it is collected from the female eider ducks' nests and has the largest duck down clusters. It is the worlds only down that is harvested in this manner as opposed to plucking the birds, dead or alive.
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No- bats are mammals, and mammals have hair/fur. Birds, like pigeons and crows, have feathers. ... The skin between bats' fingers (all the way down to the thigh bone) grows like a thin membrane that they can use to glide and flap their arms with.
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How can birds fly when it rains? Birds fly by forcing air downwards with their wings. On the upstroke, the feathers pivot to let the air pass through them, but on the downstroke they close – similar to a venetian blind – and push against the air. When it rains, the same principles apply.
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It's easy to see why a diving bird like a cormorant or a ground-dwelling one like a kakapo might lose its ability to fly when predators are absent. ... So if birds can get away with smaller ones, evolution pushes them in that direction. Large flight muscles are especially useful when birds take off.
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this practice will go on...and especially in the case of birds bred and raised in captivity, they know no difference and can live long and healthy happy lives in our homes as pets... like dogs and cats..and like the fish that you keep caged...same thing.
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On the hairy woodpecker, the outer feathers are pure white. On the downy, there are usually black or gray spots along the sides of the white outer tail feathers. You can just make out the dark spots on the side of the downy woodpecker's tail in the photo above. Their calls distinguish them also.
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Down comforters are filled with naturally insulating down that's found under the feathers of geese and ducks. On the other hand, down alternative comforters are made with synthetic materials that mimic the insulating properties of natural down. These materials can vary from cotton and polyester to rayon.
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Yes they can. Just walk up to one and they'll take a few steps back. Ducks are my favorite animal.
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Most birds can fly, at least short distances, in the rain using the oil to protect their feathers. However, in particularly heavy rain their wings may eventually get saturated with water making it difficult to fly and leaving them more vulnerable to predators.
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In their natural habitat they can live for 20 years or more. Although designated as Mute they do make hissing and honking sounds but significantly do not make any noise in flight. The only sound is the beating of the wings.
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Down: Ducks and Geese Pay the Price. Help Geese Abused for Down! Down, the soft layer of feathers closest to birds' skin, is used to make clothing and duvets. But behind the fluff lies a harsh truth, as these feathers may be violently ripped from the bodies of ducks and geese while they're still alive.