The flight of birds and insects have been optimized through evolutionary pressures for over 200 million years, and offer many examples of performance that fa efficiency of the modern aircraft. The extraordinary exhibition of ease and grace, combined with an underlying strength of framework and energy efficiency in flight, makes understanding the aerodynamic features of both insects and birds valuable to biomechanists and aeronautical engineers. Although the animated machines of insects and birds are different in structure, they may share similar stroke trajectories in flight.

This experiment analyzes the correlation of insect and bird wing trajectory using Logger Pro 3.6.0 by Vernier Software & Technology-a video-analyzing software that allows detailed changes in wing shape, orientation and movement to be captured and quantified. Using the software, a displacement-time graph, a velocity-time graph, and an acceleration-time graph was created for each 300fps high-speed video filmed via CASIO EX-F1 Camera of various birds and insects. The data was then analyzed.

Low resolution of high-speed videos of insects and birds in motion made "precise" data collection difficult to obtain, Despite this setback, however, this ex the flight of insects and birds differs distinctly by the trajectory of the wing in space and in the inclination of the plane in which the wings of both species beat.

In the end, the results of this experiment are too general to decisively determine whether or not there is any correlation in the wing designs of insects and birds. In order to obtain "precise" data, filming of the various species of birds and insects would have needed to be done in a wind tunnel, where most variables are controlled.