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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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.