The extraordinary photographs on this site are from How Birds Fly, by David Goodnow, a unique book that reveals the mysteries of flapping flight through sequences of high-speed photographs. Click on each miniature, below, to see a larger-size photo. NOTE: These photographs may be viewed on your web browser, but may not be copied or reproduced by any other means or used in any other manner whatsoever.

David Goodnow is a naturalist, licensed bird-bander and wildlife photographer whose photos have appeared in National Geographic, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Sports Illustrated, Time-Life Books and other leading publications. The author raised many of the birds he photographed for this book at his home in Connecticut.