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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1846890" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>I've seen them many many times, with their wings spread out early mornings. They have to, especially after a cool night . The can fly some without doing it, but cannot go high and soar. It's even got a name. 'Horaltic pose', and most large winged birds have to do it. Some believe it comes from the word Horus.</p><p></p><p><em>This posture, called the "horaltic pose," helps vultures thermoregulate and dry their feathers. Because it's important to dry off morning dew and thermoregulate after cooler nights, it's common to see vultures in a horaltic pose early in the mornings, performing their own brand of sun salutations.</em></p><p></p><p>(Horus was an Egyptian god, with the ability to fly, was god of the sky and weather, with one of his eyes being the sun and the other the moon and is often portrayed with small wings and the head of a falcon, other times with large wings, the same falcon head and wings outspread.) Horaltic pose, is also called a 'heraldic' pose meaning the coming or appearance of some entiy.</p><p>Ya probably don't want to know what happened to Osiris, the father of Horus..</p><p></p><p>In the early days of man's search to find a way to fly, some aircraft designers built airplanes with flapping wings, because that's all they saw of a bird's flight. (FAIL!!)</p><p></p><p>Others, like the Wright brothers, studied how birds flew (biomimicry) and realized that their wing and tail feathers were connected to muscles and the feathers along their wings, wing tips, and tails moved to control their flight and thus were born man's aviation things (control surfaces) like airfoils, horizontal and vertical stabilizers/rudder (most call that part a 'tail') , slats, ailerons, flaps, and winglets. Every advancement in man's atmospheric flight, nature perfected millions of years ago.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Birds don't have a vertical stabilizer (tail/fin) with the movable rudder on the back of it ..(the tall tail sticking up), because their horizontal equivalent is flexible and takes the place of both rudder and stabilizer, providing both yaw/roll (left and right) and pitch (up& down) axis.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]42781[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We all know, (at least us older folks) that when we first get out of bed in the mornings, our muscles don't work till we get the blood flowing to our extremities. In birds, especially large birds with big wing spans, their wings are the extremities and they have to warm the feather's muscles and blood, stretch their wings out so blood flows better to the muscles before they take off in their long high searches. Sure, they can glide down from roost ok in the morning, but they have to get their own 'hydraulics' and control surfaces really warmed up before they do any real flying.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]42778[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1846890, member: 18945"] I've seen them many many times, with their wings spread out early mornings. They have to, especially after a cool night . The can fly some without doing it, but cannot go high and soar. It's even got a name. 'Horaltic pose', and most large winged birds have to do it. Some believe it comes from the word Horus. [I]This posture, called the "horaltic pose," helps vultures thermoregulate and dry their feathers. Because it's important to dry off morning dew and thermoregulate after cooler nights, it's common to see vultures in a horaltic pose early in the mornings, performing their own brand of sun salutations.[/I] (Horus was an Egyptian god, with the ability to fly, was god of the sky and weather, with one of his eyes being the sun and the other the moon and is often portrayed with small wings and the head of a falcon, other times with large wings, the same falcon head and wings outspread.) Horaltic pose, is also called a 'heraldic' pose meaning the coming or appearance of some entiy. Ya probably don't want to know what happened to Osiris, the father of Horus.. In the early days of man's search to find a way to fly, some aircraft designers built airplanes with flapping wings, because that's all they saw of a bird's flight. (FAIL!!) Others, like the Wright brothers, studied how birds flew (biomimicry) and realized that their wing and tail feathers were connected to muscles and the feathers along their wings, wing tips, and tails moved to control their flight and thus were born man's aviation things (control surfaces) like airfoils, horizontal and vertical stabilizers/rudder (most call that part a 'tail') , slats, ailerons, flaps, and winglets. Every advancement in man's atmospheric flight, nature perfected millions of years ago. Birds don't have a vertical stabilizer (tail/fin) with the movable rudder on the back of it ..(the tall tail sticking up), because their horizontal equivalent is flexible and takes the place of both rudder and stabilizer, providing both yaw/roll (left and right) and pitch (up& down) axis. [ATTACH type="full" alt="airplane parts.jpg"]42781[/ATTACH] We all know, (at least us older folks) that when we first get out of bed in the mornings, our muscles don't work till we get the blood flowing to our extremities. In birds, especially large birds with big wing spans, their wings are the extremities and they have to warm the feather's muscles and blood, stretch their wings out so blood flows better to the muscles before they take off in their long high searches. Sure, they can glide down from roost ok in the morning, but they have to get their own 'hydraulics' and control surfaces really warmed up before they do any real flying. [ATTACH type="full" alt="buzzard horaltic.jpg"]42778[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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