Data of feather recovering performance of birds and micro structure of pigeons’ feathers

Data is presented to explain why birds can recover their ruffled feather vanes by shaking wings and preening feathers with the beak [1]. Presented data includes the SEM microscopic images of rachis, barbs and barbules of pigeon's feather and the images recording the experiments of observing and...

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Main Authors: Jing-Shan Zhao, Jiayue Zhang, Yuping Zhao, Zhaodong Zhang, Pascal Godefroit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-04-01
Series:Data in Brief
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340919314568