{"id":55856,"date":"2018-11-21T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=55856"},"modified":"2023-06-24T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T08:57:11","slug":"coppersmith-barbet-flies-sideways-on-a-windy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2018\/11\/21\/coppersmith-barbet-flies-sideways-on-a-windy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Coppersmith Barbet flies sideways on a windy day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55857\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?attachment_id=55857\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55857\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BarbetC-LRavishankar.-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"385\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BarbetC-LRavishankar.-a.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BarbetC-LRavishankar.-a-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Video grab.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The video clip by <strong>Lakshmi Ravishankar<\/strong> of a Coppersmith Barbet (<em>Megalaima haemacephala<\/em>) flying sideways on a windy day begs the question on how it does it? Or was the bird being swept sideways?<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"590\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WOfQuLvDcrA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When birds fly against the wind, they can be blown backwards if the wind speed exceeds their forward flight speed. If the birds are small and the wind is extra strong, the birds can easily be blown off course.<\/p>\n<p>Hummingbirds are unique as they have the ability to fly in all directions \u2013 left, right, up, down, forward and backwards <a href=\"https:\/\/defenders.org\/hummingbirds\/basic-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a> but other species of birds?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lakshmi Ravishankar<\/strong><br \/>\nPune, India<br \/>\n13th September 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video clip by Lakshmi Ravishankar of a Coppersmith Barbet (Megalaima haemacephala) flying sideways on a windy day begs the question on how it does it? Or was the bird being swept sideways? When birds fly against the wind, they can be blown backwards if the wind speed exceeds their forward flight speed. If the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":55857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,98],"tags":[159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}