UPDATE: An updated version is available on the Found Feathers blog's Resources page.
One of the most important parts of suggesting IDs is providing support/reasoning for your ideas, or at least being prepared to defend or reconsider your original thoughts. In the case of feathers, this can mean attaching a link to an image of matching feathers. There are many online resources, more than you might expect, each with their own regional focuses and organization style. Besides being useful for lending credence to IDs, exploring them can help you further your understanding of the similarities and differences between species, the appearances of the feathers of common species, and feather types/placements. Below is a list of three of the online resources I have found to be particularly useful.
Some others that I use less frequently:
https://www.federn.org/federn_en.html
http://www.vogelfedern.de/index-e.htm
https://www.fws.gov/lab/idnotes/_pheasantfeathers_final.pdf
https://gf.nd.gov/plots/guide/upland-game-identification
I have a few more, but these three are the ones I use most often. Feel free to message me @featherenthusiast for a full list of all the resources I know of.
Hope you all find this helpful!
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