Codex on the Flight of Birds of a kite as seeking a wind current. When the winds are high, one will see the bird very high in the sky, but when the winds are low, the bird stays closer to the ground. Leonardo describes how a bird rests in the air, after flapping its wings to gain altitude, by gliding downward to the ground. Folio 6 contains multiple diagrams of birds flying and their bone structure, and all of the commentary is on flight and how birds fly the way that they do. Leonardo starts off by describing how a bird ascends or descends in different
Conure are mostly green, with some orange around the eyes, above the beak, and on the breast near the wings. Some navy is mixed in with the green of the tail. The bird's full coloration is not seen until they are sexually mature at about two years of age. Their lifespan is about 30 years. The word "conure" is an old term that originally described members of the no longer-used genus "conurus", which included members of "aratinga" and "pyrrhura". The parrot order, Psittaciformes, is a tangle of genera, many containing only one species. Parrots include about 353 species of bird—generally grouped