Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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We share this world with around 400 billion individual birds. One incredible feature they have is their feathers which come in a surprising diversity of colors and forms. These soft, fringed plumes are unique to birds, the only other animals that had feathers as far as we know are their dinosaur ancestors.

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