There’s no such thing as a fake feather

Every craft feather you can buy is from a real bird.

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Feather: the light, flat, and waterproof structure on a bird's body, essential for flight, insulation, and waterproofing.
- Keratin: a tough, fibrous protein that is a key structural component of hair, nails, feathers, horns, and the outer layer of skin.
- Plumage: the entire set of feathers covering a bird, including their color, pattern, and arrangement.

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REFERENCES
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Klara Katarina Nordén, Chad M Eliason and Mary Caswell Stoddard (2021) Evolution of brilliant iridescent feather nanostructures. eLife 10:e71179. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71179

Benjamin S. Lazarus,. et al. (2021) Engineering with keratin: A functional material and a source of bioinspiration, iScience, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102798

Ng, Chen Siang & Li, Wen-Hsiung. (2018). Genetic and Molecular Basis of Feather Diversity in Birds. Genome biology and evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy180

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