Biomechanics

Slow cockatiel flight

By Tyson Hedrick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Type of Resource Media including photos and video clips 
Topic Locomotion/motility 
Taxa Vertebrate 
Organizational Level Organismal 
Role of activity in your course N/A 
Safety precautions, possible permissions necessary N/A 
Miscellaneous advice - pitfalls to avoid N/A 
Description A cockatiel flying at 1 meter per second in the Concord Field Station wind tunnel. Cockatiels can only maintain such a slow speed for a few seconds before tiring. This video plays back at 1/25th normal speed. 
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