Filoplumes may be tiny, but these hairlike feathers enable nonstop flights that span thousands of miles.
Vanya Gregor Rohwer slid open a drawer to display the rich pink spread wing of a roseate spoonbill, one of thousands of mounted wings at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.
He pulled up a long flight feather to expose, at its base, a palm-t... [914 chars]