Talk:Crest (bird)

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I tried, tried to edit the page as best I could, but we probably need someone better than me for this. DTPQueen 01:57, 18 September 2006

I removed the following text from the article because I couldn't understand enough of it to rewrite it in standard English and I couldn't find any external sources that discuss this material to fill in the blanks. --Cherry blossom tree 23:19, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Crest is fleshy organ, usually of showy, own color of birds and of some dinosaurs.

By their form and configuration the crests can be classified in the following groups:

• Simple : it is a simple vertical crest formed by a single sawed or indented lamina, being own of rooster of Bankiva, ancestral trunk but of the gallináceas varieties of. They can be of great, medium or small size.
• Double : in these crests there are no ends or acquire greater surface of implantation, but without finishing in end like the previous ones.
• Rosa : they are low and flattened crests, with a granular or indented, finalized surface later by a free and ready end horizontally.
• Nut : denomia with this name when the crest limits to be simple mamelón fleshy, without teeth or structured forms. When it is of made blue color and it forms mamelón in the forcebody of the head, crest with Moor is denominated. When these crests are elevated they denominate strawberry or pad, pin crests.
• Branched off : it is formed by two laminae or ends that stay separated and parallel, in diverse forms or dispositions.
• Crowned or of glass : it is formed by a flat base, from whose edges diverse ends or teeth arise that altogether are resembled a glass or crowns.