Sure, and airplanes are inspired by birds. That doesn't mean that detailed studies of the Boeing 747 are going to unlock a lot of hitherto unknown mysteries of heron behaviour.
I mean, I know you’re just providing an analogy, but people are still studying the physics of bird flight and we’re nowhere close to building machines yet that can maneuver the way birds can. https://www.quantamagazine.org/geometric-analysis-reveals-ho...