<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> <title></title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"> </head> <body style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#000000;font-size:13px;"><img id="753219AFFF63980F122A054AB150B3FB" alt="" width="0px" src="https://receipts.canarymail.io/track/0CA2264436DC4C7F17A4B4A91FB164E4_753219AFFF63980F122A054AB150B3FB.png" height="0px"><div id="CanaryBody"> <div> <div>There are some amazing videos online, of Kingfishers holding their heads perfectly steady, while their perch is being pushed around by the wind. Here’s a link to one of them:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YpIm39GHeLw">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YpIm39GHeLw</a><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <div><br></div> </div> <div id="CanarySig"> <div> <div style="font-family:Helvetica;">—<br>Nagi Aboulenein<div><br></div></div> <div><br></div> </div> </div> <div id="CanaryDropbox"> </div> <blockquote id="CanaryBlockquote"> <div> <div>On Saturday, Jul 27, 2024 at 16:44, Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div> <div>Jim, it seems to me that birds are able to do that, hold their heads steady as they move their bodies in different positions. That long, flexible neck facilitates that greatly. Watch a coot or pigeon moving and note their bobbing head. They are holding their head still, presumably for better vision, as the body moves under it. <br> <br>Dennis Paulson <br>Seattle <br> <br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 27, 2024, at 12:41 PM, Jim Betz via Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu> wrote: <br> <br>Hi, <br> <br>I've gone to Channel Drive (near La Conner) several times this week. I was attempting to <br> <br>get a picture of a swallow in flight and although a barely useful image it does show <br> <br>something I didn't know about. The swallow was making one of those tight, horizontal <br> <br>turns. The wings, tail, and body were all turned almost 90 degrees (think "vertical"). <br> <br>But the HEAD was still locked in the normal/horizontal orientation. A subsequent <br> <br>photo of a flock of Western Sandpipers showed the same thing. Perhaps this is a <br> <br>common bird behavior that I just haven't noticed before? Fun!!! - Jim <br> <br>_______________________________________________ <br>Tweeters mailing list <br>Tweeters@u.washington.edu <br>http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters <br></blockquote> <br>_______________________________________________ <br>Tweeters mailing list <br>Tweeters@u.washington.edu <br>http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters <br></div> </div> </blockquote> </body></html>