The Wright Brothers studied bird flight before they designed the first airplane. Now modern aircraft fly higher and faster ...

Airplane wings are modeled after bird wings. The bones and muscles of ... a special ridge of bone that runs down the center of the wide sternum, or breastbone. The tail feathers are used for ...

This bird made hawk-watching famous ... Light-morph adult: Head, back, and wings are brown, throat is white, wing tips dark, dark tail with 1 wide white band. A second, thinner band may be ...