Cros also observed injured and recently molted nymphs of B. orientalis to be eaten by others of the same species. |
This coat remains until the following summer or fall, when it is molted and replaced by a new one. |
That suggests that our captive SY birds molted their juvenal flight feathers on a schedule similar to that of Tufted Puffins in the wild. |
So valuable have these been considered that it has been a practice to pluck the live geese each year before they molted. |
This plumage is worn for only a short time, as the body plumage and tail are molted during the last half of July and in August. |
Newton estimated its temperature, in this position, to be more than two thousand times that of molted iron. |