Detailed Rooster With Long Tail Feathers Coloring Page

This rooster carries the biggest tail in the set, and each of its long curved sickle feathers gets its own outline with clean white paper between them, so you can give every feather a different treatment without the colours running together. That makes it the sheet for anyone who wants somewhere to put a fine tipped pen rather than a crayon. Work from the head down and the page stays manageable: the comb along the top of the skull, the rounded wattles under the beak, then the neck feathers, then the wing, then the tail. Real roosters grow those long arching tail feathers, called sickle feathers, only after their first year, which is how a farmer tells a young cockerel from a full grown bird. Colour the sickles darker than the body and leave a pale edge on each one to keep the shape readable. Print it on heavier paper if you plan to use markers, because the neck and wing lines sit close together in places.