Julian,
This list can be "endless" - there are plenty of diving birds and
other animals with the similar "task" (diving) and the similar shape.
It's one more example of blind grabbing the first random item... The
typical and the main method of biomimetics...
Cheers,
Nikolay
Quoting Julian Vincent <[log in to unmask]>:
> To start with I thought the kingfisher beak story was another urban
> myth. But it seems that it's true (link below). I still ask myself
> why engineers need to use the kingfisher as an intellectual mediator
> for streamlining, which is not a foreign topic for them. And there are
> lots of birds in the kingfisher family (e.g. kookaburra) which don't
> dive into water but have pretty much the same shaped beak. Why not a
> cormorant, whose dive is much more severe than the kingfisher?
>
> http://www.japanfs.org/en_/newsletter/200503-2.html
>
> Julian Vincent
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