Mighty Feathers Pt. 2

MIGHTY FEATHERS PART 2: Peacock eye feathers have one million DNA-designed mirrors.

MIGHTY FEATHERS PART 2: Each of the mirror barbules of the peacock feathers consists of multi-layered mirror barbules.

MIGHTY FEATHERS PART 2: The key flight feathers are the secondary feathers which grow from the outside edge of bird’s wing.

MIGHTY FEATHERS PART 2: Ruby-throated hummingbirds can beat their wings at 240 times a second.

MIGHTY FEATHERS PART 2: Peregrine falcons can reach speeds of 240 miles per hour.

MIGHTY FEATHERS PART 2: Some manakin birds make machine-gun like sounds called sonations with their wings.

MIGHTY FEATHERS PART 2: When the manakin bird moves its wings to make the machine gun sounding blasts, his outer wing feathers are whipped over 767 mph which is faster than the speed of sound. They actually make miniature sonic booms!

MIGHTY FEATHERS PART 2: The Reeves Pheasant’s beautiful tail feathers can be over sixteen feet long! These monstrous feathers grow from pin feathers that can be shorter than 3” long.

MIGHTY FEATHERS PART 2: Feathers on the face of owls (and any bird for that matter) are all pointed the right direction. One benefit of correctly oriented feathers is that none block the bird’s vision.

MIGHTY FEATHERS PART 2: For all the birds of the world, all the right feathers are grown just right in all the right places for beauty, flight and ingenious gadgetry.  And it’s all orchestrated by an insanely complex ATC and G DNA Code.