![]() ![]() ![]() Red kite ( Milvus milvus) in flight, showing remiges and rectricesįlight feathers ( Pennae volatus) are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired pennaceous feathers on the wings or tail of a bird those on the wings are called remiges ( / ˈ r ɛ m ɪ dʒ iː z/), singular remex ( / ˈ r iː m ɛ k s/), while those on the tail are called rectrices ( / r ɛ k ˈ t r aɪ s iː s/), singular rectrix ( / ˈ r ɛ k t r ɪ k s/).
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