carefully superglued broken wing feathers, and patiently treated the bumblefoot. (“Most falconers don’t understand it’s really about stress,” he says.) Several of the donated falcons ...

The Amur Falcon is a rare small bird with beautiful dark feathers and white wing designs and patterns. This bird spends the warm seasons in cold areas such as Siberia and northern China.

Still looking to learn from winged animals, a team of researchers from Princeton University is exploring how feather-like flaps on aircraft wings could improve stability and maneuverability.

The next advance, dronebuilders say, will be to emulate the way birds change the shape of their wings by overlapping their feathers, as when a peregrine falcon performs a dive at more than 200 ...