POTD: Crow Barbs

Crow Barbs
Bozeman, Montana
2021

For some reason I got to wondering what the parts of a feather are called. These intricate, parallel, structures on either side of the center quill are called barbs. I wonder how many individual barbs there are on all the feathers on a crow?

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