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Passing one ground nest, Slaton bends to watch as two tiny featherless gray and pink pelican chicks squirm, eyes still closed.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2022

In June and early July, the rookery would typically resemble a nursery overrun with featherless black-skinned newborns with pterodactyl features or weeks-old hatchlings with heart-shaped brown patches on their backs.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

In February, the team published another amber discovery: a bird's foot topped with feathers—an expected but previously unseen evolutionary step for modern birds, which later evolved scaly, featherless feet.

From Science Magazine • May 23, 2019

The game birds are lined up at the butcher, their featherless breasts kept warm by fatty bacon and a bay leaf.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2017

Slim and dark grey-blue, with dry, featherless wings and round, unblinking, yellowish eyes.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel