List of terms used in bird topography

Plumage features

• Back
• Belly
• Breast
• Cheek
• Chin
• Crest
• Crown
• Crown patch
• Ear-coverts
• Eye-ring
• Eyestripe
• Feather, see category: :Category:Feathers
• Flanks
• Forecrown
• Gorget
• Hood
• Lateral throat stripe
• Lores
• Malar
• Mantle
• Mask
• Moustachial stripe
• Nape
• Nuchal collar
• Operculum.
• Pennaceous feathers
• Postocular stripe
• Remiges
• Rump
• Spectacles
• Submoustachial stripe
• Supercilium
• Supraloral
• Parts of the tail include:
• *Rectrices
• * Tail corner
• * Terminal band
• **Subterminal band
• Throat
• Undertail coverts
• Upper mandible
• Uppertail coverts
• Vent, crissum or cloaca
• * Vent band
• Parts of the wings include:
• * Alula
• * Apical spot
• * Axillar
• * Bend of wing
• * Carpal covert
• * Emargination
• * Greater coverts
• * Leading edge of wing
• * Lesser coverts
• * Marginal coverts
• * Median coverts
• * Mirror
• * Primaries
• ** Primary projection
• ** Primary numbers
• * Scapulars
• ** Scapular crescent
• * Secondaries
• * Speculum
• * Tertials
• ** Tertial step
• * Trailing edge of wing
• * Upper scapulars
• * Wing bar
• * Wing coverts
• * Wing edging
• * Wing linings
• * Wing tip or point

  Bare-parts features

• Beak or bill
• * Cere
• * Culmen
• * Gape
• * Gonys
• ** Gonydeal angle
• ** Gonydeal spot
• *Nail
• *Nares
• * Rhamphotheca
• ** Gnathotheca
• ** Rhinotheca
• *Tomia
• Brooding patch
• Caruncle
• Comb, or Coxcomb
• Orbital skin, or orbital ring
• Tarsus
• Tibia
• Wattle