🌊🕊️ 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
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
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
Three's a Crowd
There were originally 2 swallows perched on the post but then the third one came down at them and stirred it all up.
#swallows #treeswallows #bird #birdflight #flight #nature #wildlife #animal #wings
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.
celebrating a legendary #gratefuldead show from a few dozen years ago & change today in upstate new york. i'm speaking, of course, of the time future #jazz #radio legend #PhilSchaap mixed live sound for the dead at SUNY delhi in 1970, just after owsley lost touring privileges. from this interview: https://www.maxraskin.com/interviews/interview-with-phil-schaap
appropriate for a show mixed by a dean benedetti lover, the only audio is one of the best tapes with the worst sound: https://archive.org/details/gd70-05-08.aud.miller.32056.sbeok.flacf #BirdFlight #deadfreaksunite
Here's a hawk gif if you like
#RedTailedHawk #hawk #bird #gif #BirdFlight #birdwatching #BirdNerd
Tree Swallow Flight
A Tree Swallow in flight having fun flying against the strong winds blowing in the area today.
(Summer Lake Wildlife Refuge)
#treeswallow #bird #birdflight #action #naturephotography #nature #animal
Where I think #birdflight is going is a multiverse of active but not famous people in Masdo, paid content creators on substack and post with gamers, sports, global south and of course right wing people on a rump Twitter.
Uncomfortable reality is that rump Twitter is still probably 80%+ of the market. If Elmo does not spook the advertisers too hard it can still work in time for him.
But the disruption may benefit our space the most in terms of creativity and innovation.
