Month: January 2022

The wrist and ‘hand’ of a bird contain far fewer bones than those of mammals and reptiles.

Through the evolutionary process that transformed a foreleg into a wing, some of the original bones have been lost, and others fused together.

The lives of most flying birds are fast-paced and make tremendous physical demands upon them.

A robust framework is essential, but the bird skeleton also needs flexibility and to be light enough for flight.

Birds are all that remain today of the dinosaurs.

The history of their emergence from the mighty theropod dinosaur lineage is told through millennia of fossils, and evidence of this ancestry is apparent in their living bodies today.

Waterbirds approaching (or departing from) their liquid runways offer much more rewarding viewing than does any airport.

The almost-set sun obligingly accentuated our hero’s breast feathers, as s/he and I looked directly at each other.