coverts's Usage Examples:

turquoise-blue: Wing-coverts Dark blue: Edging to wing feathers Orange: Edging to tertials, rump and lower back BirdLife International (2013).

The lores, ear coverts, tail, and wings are black, with white tips on the inner secondaries, tertials, and greater coverts of the wings.

(back and wing coverts) display pitch-black mantle markings (blackish in fledgelings and immatures) edged in clear yellow undulations.

The greylag goose has a flesh-coloured bill and legs and the upper wing-coverts are bluish-grey.

tail coverts of the resplendent quetzal (the second h is unexplained).

The back is black with yellow mottlings, the rump is yellow, and the upper tail coverts are black with white tips.

Eastern subalpine warbler differs from the western subalpine warbler by its deeper blue-grey upperparts, a blackish mask on the lores and ear-coverts, brick reddish-brown coloration confined to the throat and breast and sharply demarcated from a largely white belly, paler flanks and a wider white submoustachial stripe.

effect; meanwhile, the feather bases of median and greater coverts form tawnier mid-wing patches.

The upperparts, including mantle, back and wings, are a golden-olive colour, and the margins of the primary and secondary coverts a darker olive-brown, while the underparts are white.

tail, and wings are black, with white tips on the inner secondaries, tertials, and greater coverts of the wings.

The coverts help to smooth airflow over the wings and tail.

feature found on some pipits; it is a pale spot on the rear of the ear-coverts which, although separated from the supercilium by an eyestripe, can appear.

Synonyms:

cover, screen, camouflage, concealment, shoji, blind, stalking-horse, covering,

Antonyms:

perceptible, overhead, surface,