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Most birds moult, usually before and after breeding, resulting in a breeding or nuptial plumage and abasicplumage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For example, for the first time a bird entersbasicplumage, the plumage is known as firstbasicplumage; the second, secondbasicplumage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The plumage of first winter birds is the same as the adultbasicplumage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In birds that molt only once a year, the regular and only plumage is known asbasicplumage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In most birds, the non-breeding plumage, which is worn longer than the breeding plumage, is known as thebasicplumage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In breeding state plumage (mostly formed by wornbasicplumage), the male has a pumpkin-orange throat, nape, and underparts contrasting with an intricate black-and-white face pattern.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This resulting covering of feathers, which will last either until the next breeding season or until the next annual moult, is known as thebasicplumage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.