I'm not really familiar with the intricacies of flight processing, I think you mean the neuromuscular mechanisms used by birds to accomplish flight. It is amaz

I'm not really familiar with the intricacies of flight processing, I think you mean the neuromuscular mechanisms used by birds to accomplish flight. It is amazing to watch, though it's interesting how birds vary in coordination ability. Our jay friends aren't as graceful as other species, like the northern flicker, when landing on the suet cage. It can take 2 or 3 tries for jays to find the right balance point. My thought is that the birds with superior problem-solving skills are accomplishing it with a much less massive brain that primates, perhaps their neural arrangements are more space efficient, packing more processing power into the available volume by having less redundancy of "wiring" or more direct interconnections among "subprocessors" vs. the layered organization of mammalian brain. It's sort of like the discussions around computer/processor architectures. The standard von Neumann organization may not be the most efficient and alternatives are possible. Not that I know a lot about it, but seems to be an idea that parallels avian/mammalian comparisons.