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
Spiny-cheeked honeyeater streaks. The throat is often a light brown or cinnamon, sometimes extending from the beak to the upper breast. The wings feathers are a mottled dark olive brown to grey with white edges. The tail has similar colouring but the tips of the tail feathers are white. The under-tail coverts are white or on some birds, light grey often streaked. There seems to be an amount of variability in the bird’s appearance in many bird of this species. One example is on the Mornington Peninsula located on the eastern coast of Port Phillip Bay in Victoria where the birds have