Soaring birds — like osprey, eagles, falcons, even vultures — can stay aloft in the air seemingly forever, rarely flapping their wings. They glide along rising air currents in a way that has ...

Jasmin Wong records the range of motion of a gull wing using tracking markers. The study results revealed how birds use the shapes of their wings to switch quickly between stable and unstable gliding, ...

A large-eddy simulation reveals destabilized flight for birds soaring over wind farms. Wind turbines may seem innocuous enough, but they have the potential to reshape the air birds fly through. In a ...

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