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 ...

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

“Previously we’ve shown that captivity can change the shape of orange-bellied parrot wings, which we suspected might make their migration flights more difficult”, said the sole author of the ...

They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical flowers, all of which require distinctive wing designs.

I n October 2022 a bird with the code name B6 set a new world record that few people outside the field of ornithology noticed. Over the course of 11 days, B6, a young Bar-tailed Godwit, flew from ...