Bird Head Tracking

Same as the chicken's ability... only with a small bird I accidently injured :(

Birds have a great ability to keep their heads stable. Our bodies use a gyro-like mechanism in our ears which has 3 mutually orthogonal inertial measurement devices. Modern motion processors use something called an Inertial Measurment Unit (IMU). These devices provide movement data which can be used to compensate for the movement.

*Update*

I called a licensed wildlife rehabilitator who said birds with broken wings have a very small chance for survival. After the first day, it looked like he was getting healthier. Unfortunately he died shortly after. :(

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Education

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• Pennywhistle
• Productions
• Bird
• Head
• tracking
• stabalization

[Sonyag1]

Did the Purple Martin recover?

[destinws2]

@Sonyag1

Sadly, no.  We called a local animal rescue center but the bird died before we were able to deliver it.

[BirdValiant]

Birds can't move their eyes in their sockets, so they need to keep their entire heads stable as humans do with just their eyes. There's your explanation.

[destinws2]

@BirdValiant

Watch my chicken powered steadicam video and see the eye movement at 36 seconds

[stevenralston90]

that baby is prescious screw the rest of these people talkin crap.

nice videos

[destinws2]

Ha Ha. Thanks. Subscribe if you like.... Have a couple of more coming soon.

[HayesAJones]

"Daddy, daddy, daddy!"

"Yes ma'am."

"Bird."

[bubblyblossom94]

your daughter is so adorable!

"daddy, daddy, daddy..bird." haha!<3

[DerMacDuff]

@destinws2 What he said is partly right. Many birds have bad eye movement and a bad vision. If they move their head they only perceive blurred images. To avoid this they try to keep the head as stable as possible as long as they can because only in this position they see clear images. Also the typical nod of the head(which it isnt, its more that the body follows the head) is result of this.

[DerMacDuff]

@destinws2 ;(

[DerMacDuff]

is that a swift??

[rollerboltkid]

dont drop ur child

[baseballboy833]

how did u injure the burd

[sanijkt]

At first I thought you'd test your daughter's head tracking. lol

[iampeeay01]

Thanks for sharing this video... :) your little girl is so cute... :)

[ps3Gamer23100]

so this means alot of birds have this gyroscope neck thing

[MegaCoffebean]

@destinws2 thats really sad =(

[McLemonaid]

Thought it said "...see the video where daddy made me..."