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February 1, 2012

Slow motion video of bird landing

This is a pretty interesting video. It shows that, as the bird lands, it folds and retracts its wings more than once which surprised me, anyway.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/01/look-ma-no-wings-secret-of-great-tit-flight-revealed.html

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Posted by Rob Kiser on February 1, 2012 at 12:00 PM

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