Titles of carving on bird's flying poses


Non-flapping flight

  Black kite soaring in thermal ascending current

  Common buzzard hanging in climbing air current along a slope

  Short-tauked albartross soaring by making use of boundary layer of wind blowing
  on ocean

  Spotbill duck in parachuting fall before landing

  Black stork parachuting toward the nest on height

  Common kingfisher diving with folding wing

  Peregrine falcon diving from high altitude

  Japanese pheasant moving with high speed gliding

  Owl in silent somewhat accelerating glide at the ambush hunting

  Carrion crow landing on flat ground by decelerating glide

  Bull-headed shrike landing on a branch of tree

  Grey-faced buzzard-eagle landing the nest on tree through forest

  Japanese pied wagtail using bounding and intermittent beating

  Brown-eared bulbul using bounding and intermittent beating

  Tree sparrow using bounding and intermittent beating

  Gray starling flying in a straight line with intermittent beating

  House swallow in bounding flight by riding on wind over sea-wave

  Slalom of house swallow








Flapping flight -1

  Red-crowned crane in beating flight with almost one hinge

  Great egret in typical beating flight with two hinges

  White-fronted goose migrating in a formation flight riding on fair wind

  Japanese cormorants migrating in a formation flight skimming along surface
   of calmed down sea

  Migrating Japanese quail

  Ancient murrelet in beating flight inside water

  Ancient murrelet in beating flight at sea

  Japanese pied wagtail producing thrust continuously by beating wing parallel
   to the line of march quickly

  Pigeon gaining thrust in flapping up run by back drive primaries

  Glaucous gull going by force against strong wind

  Common kestrel hovering toward wind

  Hovering of tree sparrow

  Hovering of skylark


Flapping flight -2

  Bewick's swan taking off with approach run

  Mallard taking off directly from water surface

  Eastern turtle dove taking off directly from ground

  Merlin taking off from a branch of tree

  White-faced shearwater taking off by running down on a swelling wave

  Eastern turtle dove in emergency takeoff






  Japanese pheasant in emergency takeoff

  Green-winged teal in emergency takeoff

  Columba livia landing by flapping with short steps

  Short-tauked albatross by flapping with short steps toward wind

  Black-headed gull temporarily stopping in air or landing point

  White-tailed sea eagle taking off with caught fish

  Common tem taking off with a fish in its bill





Titles of explanation panel on bird's flight dynamics

  Ways and classification of bird's flight

  Force acting on a flying bird

  Method producing a lift considered up to date

  Techniqe changing direction freely without vertical tail

  Mechanism of beating flight

  Ways of eco-flight

  Multi-structure with movement of bird and surrounding air

  Necessary conditions to bird's flight



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