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| Bird Flight Front Cover |
Robert Burton 1990 (hard copy)
During 2016 I received a copy of this fascinating book from one of my Birds in Flight Photography Workshop delegates. As an avid Birds in Flight photographer around Woodbridge Island, Cape Town I'm delighted for adding this book to my photography book collection.
The stunning selection of more than 120 birds in flight images and the research / graphic detail of bird flight biology is presented in a well illustrated ornithological study by an experienced writer of natural history books.
Book Availability
Bird Flight is still available on Amazon and a few other Online Retailers.
Chapter Contents
Conquering the Air
- Into the air
- Evolution of bird flight
- Learning how birds fly
The Bird as a Flying Machine
- Basic principles
- The wing of the bird
- Spreading the wing
- Feathers
- Gliding
- The tail
- Flapping flight
- Power for flight
- Power and speed
- What speed to fly
- Built for flight
- Fuel for flying
- Heart and lungs
- Flight maintenance
- Moulting
Flying Skills
- Taking off
- Landing
- Control of flight
- Fine control
Styles of Flight
- Wings and flight
- Free-wheeling
- Soaring
- Ground effect
- Formation flying
- Hovering
Living in the Air
- Time in the air
- Flight for feeding
- Flying to avoid predators
- Flight for migration
- Flight for breeding
- First flight
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| Bird Flight Back Cover |
