In our follow up episode on avian flight we dive deeper into the question of how birds get into the air. In part two we look at the machinery birds have and the physiological attributes they needed to make a flapping wing work. But do we answer the question, 'how do birds fly?', almost certainly not.

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Notes

• Part 1: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1733312/episodes/16146149-power-of-flight-part-1
• Feather episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1733312/episodes/8438286-the-heck-s-a-feather 
• Keel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keel_(bird_anatomy)#:~:text=A%20keel%20or%20carina%20(%20pl,the%20plane%20of%20the%20ribs.
• hollow bones: https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/news/some-birds-have-hollow-bones-and-new-research-helps-us-understand-why
• lungs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXuWi_ODAgo
• feathers: https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/feathers-article/
• wing design: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/k12/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Bird-Wing-Types-Handout.pdf