Bird Taking Off at 20,000 fps (213 milliseconds) - Smarter Every Day 197

Birds are amazing!!! Nature at it's best. Love watching Boobies dart for fish out of great heights. Their flight ability is amazing but their vision is what really amazes me. Great video thou! Really enjoyed it.

Sharkphoria by Johanna Kohler

It was awesome, has anyone saw how he contracts his wings after a downward thrust while moving wings up.

Rohit Ken

Hello Dustin, great video! Do you know what would be amazing to see in close-up slow-motion? A bonfire spark! I was always fascinated by them how they light up more and more and then it just dies... I think they mimic life. The power you get in your youth represented by the strength of the light and the old age represented by the slow decay of that light all in a split second. Curious thing huh?

This is wonderful 😀😍

A good follow-up to this video is one from the Vox channel on Youtube about Biomimicry. The video starts by outlining the engineering behind Japan's sleek new bullet train following reports that the old design causing a sonic boom level noise upon exiting a tunnel. The lead engineer of the train was an avid bird watcher who incorporated his observance of birds into the design of the new train resulting in reduced noise and better efficiency. The point of the video was to explain how our world has been designed horribly in the past and that we are now becoming better now that we are mimicking nature.

David Cichowski

More simple vide pls

It's amazing, especially seeing the feathers turn on the upwards stroke - I somehow always assumed that all the birds do is pull the wings in slightly and orient them as a whole (kind of like we do when swimming). This footage is just fantastic, at least to me!

Victor

Hi. I would like to support you with 2$ per month. Regardless, waht you do. But the system does not allow me to. Any ideas, how to do it?

Grzegorz Kapica

I loved this. Just loved it. Loved it so much I doubled my pledge. More please!

Andrew Phillips

Thanks for taking this opportunity! We loved it!

Robert Keiser

Cool video. Interesting paper (Wing and Body Kinematics...). Even more interesting to me is that the authors of the paper do not talk about the Reynolds numbers of the wing (plural because the wing changes shape) and its impact on the takeoff and landing. They talk about "stroke plane" without ever coming to the idea of "angle of attack", which combines angle of incidence with relative wind. They talk about displacing air, without consulting Bernoulli. It is like they are interested in the aerodynamics of takeoff and landings, but they failed to reference the work that has been done in the field. Sounds like an interesting video and investigation to me, Destin.

Birds are the coolest

The truncated links with ellipses in them don't work correctly. :(

Amazing what you can see and learn when you slow down and really take a good look. Thanks. This was great!

KC

I love this video, what's incredible to me, is that this bird hopped into the air and took off in about 0.2 seconds! Keep up the fantastic work, Smarter Every Day! :D

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