Guest curator Dr. Peter Cavanagh gives a talk to mark the opening of the exhibit How Birds Fly, developed by The Museum of Flight in partnership with the Burke Museum. Dr. Peter Cavanagh is an avid birder and biomechanicist at the University of Washington. Through a unique combination of Dr. Cavanagh’s bird photography and ornithological specimens from the Burke, the exhibit explores bird evolution, anatomy, and behavior, as well as the impact birds have had on human flight from the designs of Leonardo da Vinci, the Wright brothers, and even today’s aerospace engineers.
Presented April 11, 2015 at the Museum of Flight
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