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  • prealternate molt

    the molt by which many birds replace only some and rarely all of the feathers assumed at the prebasic molt, usually occurring prior to breeding.

  • basic plumage

    the plumage assumed by an adult bird at its complete, usually annual, molt.

  • prebasic molt

    the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.

  • alternate plumage

    (of birds having more than one plumage in their cycle of molts) the plumage of the second molt, usually brighter than the basic plumage.

  • exuviate

    (ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).

  • juvenal plumage

    the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
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