Bird Flight (IMAGE)

Office of Naval Research

Bird Flight

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Obie the parrotlet. Office of Naval Research-sponsored researchers at Stanford University recently found a new way to precisely measure the vortices created by birds' wings during flight. The results shed greater light on how these creatures produce enough lift to fly -- and challenge the accuracy of three aerodynamics models long used to predict animal flight.

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(Photo: Lentink Lab, Stanford University)

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