2005/10/14, frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com>: > down down there? Short of an African Grey Parrot I used to have that > would pluck himself bald, is there a modern analogue of the bald belly > extant? Doesn't snowy owl have a featherless vascularized area in its belly? Ptarmigans too must have a featherless patch on the abdomen. []s, Roberto Takata