"It's their moulting season," he explained simply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference

Ecdysis: the process of casting the skin; moulting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

"He's moulting again -- more feathers!" cried Newall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

When moulting keep warm and avoid all draughts of air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

When the plumes of his genius lay moulting in fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

It is only in the moulting season that he does not sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference

I guess I must be moulting, 'and with that, off he flew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mouser Cats' Story] Reference

December 29th Sudden moulting of hair on forehead and torso.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart Of A Dog]

See my post on crabs moulting to rid themselves on excess lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do isopods grow on trees?] Reference

The lower record of January was caused by some pullets moulting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference

Or is moulting determined by the time of year they happen to be born?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XXXI] Reference

Youth was on the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

"Well you look as though you're moulting, but still you can't complain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mice Are at It Again] Reference

Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

In the light of day the congregation looked like a bunch of moulting crows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burning Water]

The bird appears about two years old: it has gone through this year's moulting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832] Reference

Get out of my way, there! lumbering the scuppers up like so many moulting fowls!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

They are moulting at the minute and the hairs may be doing the rash, asthma etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yeah, back online] Reference

We have lost our last Cape canary through moulting; he was a beautiful singer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

This one is in the process of moulting still, I think, which might be part of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fat bastard] Reference

Corrugated cardboard provides an ideal oviposition and moulting site for Trogoderma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Autumn had changed to winter, and still the hens were moulting, and there were no eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy in Her Blue Frock] Reference

Perhaps there is some irritation and unpleasantness connected with moulting which causes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bird Study Book] Reference

The active compound disrupts their hormone system during the moulting and pupation stages.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Case studies of small-scale semi-industrial neem processing in Kenya, Thailand, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua] Reference

Which is perhaps a telling preoccupation for a man about to undergo a major public moulting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Co West, O'Brien!] Reference

The bird is losing all the feathers from her neck, though it is not yet the time for moulting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)] Reference

Professional people are like wild geese -- roosting on air and moulting their names like feathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

They are able to induce relatively rapid and premature moulting at any point in larval development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Larval odonatans go through 11 or 12 instars before crawling out of the water and moulting into adults.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insecta (Aquatic)] Reference

It had a bandstand, a brook, a moulting peacock in a wire enclosure and a thick little copse of dwarf oak.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Than Human]

Reindeer hairs rain down incessantly day and night, with every movement that they make in their moulting bags.    From Wordnik.com.  [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference

Our object was to change occupation and mode of life without financial loss, and without moulting a single comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference

During pre-adult life, the exoskeleton is therefore renewed a number of times by the process of moulting or ecdysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

They do not interfere directly with chitin synthesis but mimic the invertebrate moulting hormone, 20 hydroxyecdysone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

On leaving the nest they, accompanied by their parents, seek a more favorable situation until after the moulting season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference

Attempts have been made to use substances which interfere with the insects 'complicated mechanism of development and moulting.    From Wordnik.com.  [10. Integrated pest management] Reference

After a time I began to let him out for an hour or two, first releasing him when he was moulting and could not fly very easily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference

She had just finished moulting but looked in good condition, so in a few days she will be flown to her new home - Codfish Island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Chance to See]

"We are moulting the old skin of home affairs and what is now emerging is a brighter, better, more efficient organisation," she told.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The male while moulting assumes very nearly the color of the female, a dull brown, the rich plumage not returning for two or three months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [May, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference