For Birds, a Steady Head Is the Key to Incredible Focus.
While reading this sentence, shake your head back and forth, and then nod up and down. Notice how the words on your screen remain in focus? Congratulations, you just experienced “gaze stabilization.”
It’s this natural ability that allows us to maintain a clear line of vision even when our bodies are in motion. Although modern humans are largely sedentary, the capability has considerable value (how else would you read your texts while walking?). But for birds, many of which zip through trees and divebomb prey at high speeds, gaze stabilization is indispensable, fascinatingly complex, and, for those watching, even a little amusing at times.
When you shook and nodded your head at the start of this article, your eyes naturally stabilized the image in front of you. Birds use this approach, as well; they are capable of making micro adjustments in their eyes.
But they do so to a much lesser extent than us.
What makes birds the true steadicams of nature is how they orient their head.
Thanks in part to a large number of vertebrae and muscles in their neck, birds can hold their head in place even when their body’s in motion.
According to David Lentink, an assistant professor at Stanford University who studies biological flight, this adaptation helps birds stream high-resolution visuals when moving quickly through complex terrain. “They keep their head absolutely horizontal at all cost because that way they have the most reliable information, which they have to stream at high rates,” he says. “When you’re maneuvering like crazy . . . you need a perfect vision platform.”
Pigeons also clearly exhibit gaze stabilization. When a pigeon takes a step forward, it holds its head in place so as to maintain focus on something ahead—french fries, perhaps.
The pigeon’s head then needs to catch up with it’s body, which is now slightly offset. So in one quick motion it jerks it’s head forward, losing only a split second to blurry vision (which the brain ignores anyway, Dickman says).
Gaze stabilization found in nature has inspired modern technologies, such as those used to stabilize images in cameras and drones. Any cameras that films movies have image stabilization.
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