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Some issues

Wing shapes

I see some issues with the illustration:

• the flight of the albatross is characterized as "slowgliding/soaring". In reality, albatrosses are some of the fastest soaring birds.
• the aspect ratio the albatross silhouette is significantly below the wings of real albatrosses. (compare with this Black-browed Albatross])
• the wing of an actual eagle is much broader than in the image. (compare this bald eagle)
• the silhouette of the falcon does not resemble a falcon at all (compare this peregrin falcon)
• the crow is no better (compare this crow)
• the heads of all birds are exaggerated in size

In addition, the silhouettes are neither in correct relative scale. The span of an albatross is about ten times the span of a crow. Nor are they scaled to some common size, E.g. the body size, or wing span.--KaiMartin (talk) 11:10, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

It was meant to be somewhat schematic, hence the exaggertions used. I am happy to make it more realistic but it needs more time. Shyamal (talk) 04:08, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

I have made some modifications to the diagram based on the image sources you provided. I am not convinced by the scale issue. I have chosen a mid-sized corvid and a mid-sized eagle. Wandering albatrosses have a 3-3.5 m wingspan and a medium-sized crow species like C. macrorhynchos has a 1 m wingspan - so the 10 times wingspan does not seem quite right. Shyamal (talk) 05:36, 8 September 2015 (UTC)