The shape of a bird's wing determines where it lives. University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2016.1922 ...

You can know a lot of things about birds just by the shape of their wings. A seafaring albatross, stretching out its sail-like airfoils, lives a very different life from a ground-dwelling antpitta ...

Bird wings, unlike stiff airplane wings, are flexible and change shape during flight. So, their geometry and wing outline may not tell the whole story of a particular flight style or environment ...

Bird wings, unlike stiff airplane wings, are flexible and change shape during flight. So, their geometry and wing outline may not tell the whole story of a particular flight style or environment ...

Bird wings size and shape were measured from collections held at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, and the University of Washington Burke Museum.

So even when the bird glides or soars, the wing shape helps keep it up in the air. When a bird isn’t flying, it folds its wings neatly and tucks them against its body, out of the way.

With a view to bringing shapeshifting wings for aircraft closer to reality, scientists are launching into the most detailed analysis of bird flight ever conducted.

Could pigeons be the model for a new generation of flying robots? That’s what the researchers who built PigeonBot, a robotic pigeon with actual feathered wings, seem to be betting. Having bir… ...

A new robotic bird made with real pigeon feathers is the first robot that can change the shape of its wings like a bird. (Lentink Lab/Stanford Univ.) As Science News reports, ...