Doing some quick internet searching, I see that songbirds can have from 1500-3000 individual feathers. Swans can have as many as 25,000.
Bird of Many Feathers
Published August 12, 2019 Fieldnotes 2 CommentsTags: birding, birds, Brooklyn
Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world. "The place to observe nature is where you are."—John Burroughs
What is it?
This is a juvenile Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias. See my early post here.