Birds are quite muscular. If you have ever eaten chicken, that meat is muscle.
After the pectoralis major, the next most important muscle in the birds is triceps. It is highly developed muscle in birds and used to extend the wings.
Of all the birds in the world, hummingbirds are the best fliers. One of the things that makes them great fliers is the size of their chest. All birds have two chest muscles, one to raise the wings, and one to lower them. When the first muscle contracts it pulls the wings up. When the other muscle contracts it pulls the wings down. Most birds have small muscles for raising their wings. All their power comes from the downbeat. But hummingbirds have big muscles for raising and lowering their wings. They are the only birds that get flying power from both wingbeats. That is why they are such superb fliers.
Yes. Takahe are birds, and all birds have wings. Even flightless birds have wings, though they are of little or no use.
No, birds have lungs in their chest cavity not their wings.
The musculoskeletal system, comprising muscles and bones, provides the power and structure for wing movement in birds. And the nervous system coordinates muscle contractions and movement patterns to control the flapping of wings in flight.
The breast muscles are not the most powerful in all birds - only in birds capable of flight. This is because it is the breast muscles that power the wings.
Two, all birds have two wings.
they flap wings
Most birds use their wings for flight. Some of the flightless birds, or birds which do not fly much, may use their wings just for balance, especially when perching (e.g. chickens). For some flightless birds such as the kiwi, their wings appear to be without purpose.
It depends on the species of bird
if you use the birds DNA, then yes, as the birds DNA doesn't say *no wings*
Two Birds with the Wings of One was created in 2006.