Movie S4.

A bird-scale ornithopter passively reorients into the wind, minimizing slip angle. Footage from three angles (top, left, right) of the ornithopter as it is released from a slip angle of 90 degrees in a 4 m/s wind in the wind tunnel. The stroke plane angle is 25 degrees.

How lovebirds maneuver through lateral gusts with minimal visual information

Daniel Quinn, Daniel Kress, Eric Chang, Andrea Stein, Michal Wegrzynski, and David Lentink

PNAS. 2019. 116:15033-15041 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1903422116