#birdflight — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #birdflight, aggregated by home.social.
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🌊🕊️ Soaring Beyond Horizons: The Remarkable
Albatross With a wingspan reaching up to ~11.5 ft, the Wandering Albatross is the ocean’s master glider. From dynamic soaring to periodic ocean rests, explore the science, misconceptions, and marvels of its journeys across thousands of miles.
📖 Read & watch here ➡️ https://TPC8.short.gy/MmCiwCeo
#Albatross #Seabirds #OceanWildlife #BirdFlight #Birds #Nature #SouthernOcean #Subantarctic #WildlifePhotography #Ornithology #MarineBirds #Biodiversity #TPC8
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Nice epaulets. A Red-winged Blackbird shows off its bright shoulder patches as it looks for a new perch among the marsh reeds.
#birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BombayHook #BirdFlight #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature
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Flying Without a Rudder
Aircraft typically use a vertical tail to keep the craft from rolling or yawing. Birds, on the other hand, maneuver their wings and tail feathers to counter unwanted motions. Researchers found that the list of necessary adjustments is quite small: just 4 for the tail and 2 for the wings. Implementing those 6 controllable degrees of freedom on their bird-inspired PigeonBot II allowed the biorobot to fly steadily, even in turbulent conditions, without a rudder. Adapting such flight control to the less flexible surfaces of a typical aircraft will take time and creativity, but the savings in mass and drag could be worth it. (Image credit: E. Chang/Lentink Lab; research credit: E. Chang et al.; via Physics Today)
#biology #biorobotics #birdFlight #birds #flightControl #fluidDynamics #physics #science #turbulence
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With these new methods, we can estimate the wing area of thousands of bird specimens that already have wingspan information in research collections, including rare and extinct species, benefiting studies of #birdflight, #movementecology, and #dispersal.
