Lorna Gibson

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199 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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Something You Should Know · Has Therapy Gone Too Far? & The Hidden Genius of Birds · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

But there's also the lift, and the lift arises from the flow of the air over the wings.

And then there's the drag.

You know, if you're on your bicycle and you bike into the wind, you can feel the wind kind of pressing against you and pushing back.

That's drag.

It's the same thing for the birds.

And then there's thrust.

That's the force that moves the birds forward.

but it's really the upward force that allows them to overcome their weight and to stay aloft in the air.

Well, if you look at birds that are just getting out of the nest, you look at fledgling birds, often they do this routine where they'll stand on a branch and they'll sort of hop and flap, and they're sort of hop flapping.

And I think they're sort of trying out their wings and kind of seeing what it feels like.

And, you know, eventually they will leap off the branch and some are more successful than others.

Let's put it that way.

Some of them, you know, manage to kind of get themselves to another branch and land and some of them end up on the ground.

You kind of see, sometimes you see baby birds on the ground and they've, you know, tried to fly, I think, and not quite got it.

And also, even once they've made that first kind of leap and put their wings out and tried to fly, I think it takes them some time to actually learn how to fly and get good at it.

I live near a pond and I once saw an osprey, and I can only assume it was a juvenile osprey learning to fly.

And when an osprey fishes, they can see the fish near the surface of the water,

They kind of zoom down and they put out their talons and they grab the fish and they fly off.

Well, this bird had not quite perfected that.

And it kept doing these belly flops.

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