Talk:Crest (feathers)

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I tried, tried to edit the page as best I could, but we probably need someone better than me for this. DTPQueen 01:57, 18 September 2006

I removed the following text from the article because I couldn't understand enough of it to rewrite it in standard English and I couldn't find any external sources that discuss this material to fill in the blanks. --Cherry blossom tree 23:19, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Crest is fleshy organ, usually of showy, own color of birds and of some dinosaurs.

By their form and configuration the crests can be classified in the following groups:

Simple : it is a simple vertical crest formed by a single sawed or indented lamina, being own of rooster of Bankiva, ancestral trunk but of the gallináceas varieties of. They can be of great, medium or small size.
Double : in these crests there are no ends or acquire greater surface of implantation, but without finishing in end like the previous ones.
Rosa : they are low and flattened crests, with a granular or indented, finalized surface later by a free and ready end horizontally.
Nut : denomia with this name when the crest limits to be simple mamelón fleshy, without teeth or structured forms. When it is of made blue color and it forms mamelón in the forcebody of the head, crest with Moor is denominated. When these crests are elevated they denominate strawberry or pad, pin crests.
Branched off : it is formed by two laminae or ends that stay separated and parallel, in diverse forms or dispositions.
Crowned or of glass : it is formed by a flat base, from whose edges diverse ends or teeth arise that altogether are resembled a glass or crowns.

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Expand the scope of this article?[edit]

There are several other animal groups that have crests (or are named "crested") but do not have feathers (e.g. crested gibbons, crested porcupines, crested newts, Chinese crested dog). Should the scope of this article be widened to cover these? If so, the article may need moving to a new page such as Crest (animals).__DrChrissy (talk) 12:18, 14 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I added a short section about crest feathers in domesticated bird species and included a new reference to Bartels' journal article about variation in crest feathers in domesticated bird species from the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. There are species of birds other than wild species that contain crest feathers, and including a section that highlights this fact and clarifies the nature of these domestic species is different from wild species is important.

Further edits and improvements could expand on how domesticated bird species' crest feathers differ from wild species in morphology, function, arrangement, prominence, etc. In addition, this page needs a lot more citations included to flesh out the content and back up some of the information. Much of the first two paragraphs seems largely unsupported by a reference. Newmansr (talk) 18:45, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]