plumage

“Green feathers!” yelled Cassiopeia, batting the rain of plumage from her head.

From its display case in the museum’s “Stories from Mesoamerica” hall, the iridescent plumage shimmers like a rainbow encased in glass, a tropical interloper to these northern climes.

What some of these drably plumaged species lack in color and plumage contrast, they make up for in personality.

Yet the malevolent flightless bird with a chip on his plumage isn’t the sole antagonist of “Vengeance Most Fowl.”

Everybody can just get out there and watch them and try to appreciate the variation of their plumage.