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European settlers in North America killed the swans for food, and turned their down-covered skin into powder puffs for cosmetics and their feathers into quill pens, said Gary Ivey, a past president of the Trumpeter Swan Society.

“I had no idea she would learn so fast,” said Gipson, whose hairless, down-covered cats share his Denver home with a pit bull.

So it was an unusual and thrilling experience Thursday night for about 100 people who gathered in a pole barn in Bird-in-Hand to witness five down-covered owlets removed from their nest briefly and banded for monitoring purposes.

We watched armadas of colorful fish sail by us in the crystal-clear lagoon, marveled at down-covered baby chicks in their nests on Bird Island and played hide-and-seek with hermit crabs along the shoreline.

Only those persons who were close to the king wore the down-filled or down-covered net caps and feather plumes on their heads.