{"id":13651,"date":"2019-12-23T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windycityparrot.com\/blog\/?p=13651"},"modified":"2019-12-23T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:40:07","slug":"can-wet-birds-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/?p=13651","title":{"rendered":"Can Wet Birds Fly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">Absolutely!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">Watch this osprey get fully submerged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">I find it amazing that the bird has enough energy to take off as water-laden as it got.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">Note the \u201crounded\u201d wing flap necessary for enough lift to fully emerge and propel itself from the surface carrying not only the fish but a few pounds of water caught up in its feather (integumentary) system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1140\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nMw-PspfdkQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">Towards the end of the video, watch the bird begin to straighten out the fish as it climbs higher to make it (the fish) more aerodynamic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">Birds have no muscles in their legs from thighs down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">There are 2 (flexor) tendons in each leg that act as an eloquent pulley system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">The foot closes as the ankle angle changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">This is why birds can sleep on one foot, the tendons lock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">Since there are no muscles, the feet and legs never get \u201ctired.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"main-qimg-4d57720b64dc161715b484273a0bc40c\" title=\"main-qimg-4d57720b64dc161715b484273a0bc40c\" src=\"https:\/\/qph.fs.quoracdn.net\/main-qimg-4d57720b64dc161715b484273a0bc40c\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">(above &#8211; Screech-owl foot post necropsy<br \/>\nusing fish line to simulate flexor tendons)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">A wiggling fish will slow things down and the bird is looking forward to eating sooner rather than later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">Predatory birds like this osprey use the tendon system to kill its prey by closing their huge talons into the fish&#8217;s body &#8211; \u201cwiggle be gone\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Can-wet-birds-fly\/answer\/Mitch-Rezman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find other answers to this question on Quora<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">As a counterpoint to this:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">Unless you have been training your bird for free flight daily chances are the muscles driving its wings don&#8217;t have near the horsepower of an Osprey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">If you should have the unfortunate circumstance of <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/09\/lost-bird-found-parrot-2-problems-w-interchangeable-solutions-think-dont-panic-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">your bird escaping<\/a> and landing on the tree in front of your home, a prescribed method of recovery is to spray it with a garden hose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">A saturated cockatiel can barely fly and will not gain altitude when saturated.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">Written by Mitch Rezman<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">Approved by Catherine Tobsing<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely! Watch this osprey get fully submerged. I find it amazing that the bird has enough energy to take off as water-laden as it got. Note the \u201crounded\u201d wing flap necessary for enough lift to fully emerge and propel itself from the surface carrying not only the fish but a few pounds of water caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[196,197,192,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-behavior","category-bird-enviornments","category-flight","category-wild-bird-wildlife"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/wet-cockatiel-blog-1-1-8.jpg?resize=600%2C445&ssl=1",600,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/wet-cockatiel-blog-1-1-8.jpg?resize=463%2C348&ssl=1",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/wet-cockatiel-blog-1-1-8.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1",300,300,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/wet-cockatiel-blog-1-1-8.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1",600,600,false]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/wet-cockatiel-blog-1-1-8.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phcfkq-3yb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}