When do birds molt?

Question

what time do birds lose there feathers?

Answer 1

Generally, birds molt once a year at about the same time each year. Species and age will determine when your bird molts. Stress can also influence molting and cause a bird to enter the molting stage early and quickly, causing a hard molt.

Smaller birds can enter their first molt several weeks after fledging. Larger parrots such as Amazons, Greys, and Cockatoos will generally begin their first molt at around 9 to 10 months of age.

The reason.. simple...Molting is defined as the natural process for the gradual replacement of old, tattered, or damaged feathers with new feather growth.

Answer 2

When birds molt depends greatly on the species. Songbirds for example often molt twice a year, in the fall and spring before migration, but maintain the ability to fly. Other birds like waterfowl may molt twice in a year as well, but at different times. Canada geese will molt in early summer at which time they loose the ability to fly.

Answer 3

It does greatly depend on the species. Some species are migratory and some are not. Molting is an activity that takes a lot of energy, so they do it at a time when they are not using a lot of energy raising young or migrating. Many neotropical songbirds and ducks have a bright breeding plumage and a dull winter plumage, so they molt into new plumages twice each year.

Answer 4

Birds lose more feathers in the spring to keep them a little cooler in the summer.

Answer 5

Birds get moldy if they don't keep themselves kleen. But they makes good penicillan.

Answer 6

My chickens started moulting in mid-August. They still look patchy.