how do birds fly in place?
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So the shape of the wing and the ability to move it through the air are the two things needed for bird and plane flight. Birds use their strong breast muscles to flap their wings and give them the thrust to move through the air and fly. In a way, birds use a swimming motion to get the lift needed to fly.
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Most birds will fly away as one gets closer. Two people should be involved to keep track of where the bird goes should he/she fly off while being retrieved. A decoy bird may be used. If there is a cage mate or companion bird in the home they too can be used to lure your "jail bird" back home.
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Why do flocks of birds fly in a circle over the same place over and over again? The behavior you speak of is due to an effect called thermals. ... Social birds that fly in large flocks also use thermals to gain altitude and extend their range during migration.
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Flying birds have different wing and feather structures that make flying easier, while flightless birds' wing structures are well adapted to their environment and activities, such as diving in the ocean. A number of bird species appear to be in the process of losing their powers of flight to various extents.
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A new study of ibises finds that these big-winged birds carefully position their wingtips and sync their flapping, presumably to catch the preceding bird's updraft—and save energy during flight. ... Squadrons of planes can save fuel by flying in a V formation, and many scientists suspect that migrating birds do the same.
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Birds have feathers and hollow bones, which separates them from all other living animals. They also lay hard-shelled eggs (reptile eggs have soft, leathery shells). Most birds can fly while most other animals, besides insects, cannot, and their wing is basically their arm, with feathers creating the flight surfaces.
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Scientists in America have made a special wind tunnel to make it easier to study the way that tiny birds fly in windy weather. ... The wind tunnel makes strong gusts in a small space, so the birds can fly against it without actually going anywhere. The scientists film them in super slow-motion to watch how they move.
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The reason why hummingbirds are known to be the only birds to be able to hover is because they are the only birds who are evolutionarily equipped to fly in one place for many consecutive wing beats. ... Eagles and other birds of prey can hover for short periods of time before diving in on ground-level or aquatic prey.
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Originally Answered: Is peacock a flightless bird? Peacocks can fly but usually like to walk on the ground to find food.
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Airplanes are man-made while birds are naturally born. Birds flap their wings to fly while airplanes have engines, electrical wires, cables and require fuel to fly. ... Bird's wings provide lift and thrust while the airplane's wings have an airfoil shape that only provide lift.
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When a bird hovers, it is flying, but not moving through the air; when a bird windhovers, it is flying through the air, but it is flying upwind at the same speed as the wind. ... Strictly, windhovering is not hovering, but it is an interesting tactic used by some birds to temporarily hang over one spot.
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Eventually, the fledglings — young birds learning to fly — come to realize that falling from the nest is a bit easier if they spread their wings, according to Boston University. Once they learn to spread their wings, flapping them is the next step, and soon that flapping becomes flight.
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They will commonly fly in V-formation, but unlike geese, they regularly stop to hover in mid-air before reassembling and flying on (this looks quite funny). At great distances, this can be useful for telling them apart from geese.
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Other than a few differences such as air sacs connected to their lungs to make them lighter and a lightweight skeleton with hollow bones, birds can fly because their wingspan and wing muscle strength are in balance with their body size. When it comes to us humans, it's all about strength to size ratio.
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Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards and upside down. The design of a hummingbird's wings differs from most other types of birds.
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Pigeons can home under a wide variety of conditions. They fly when the sun is visible and when it is not. With training, they will even fly at night. They fly with both head and tail winds, but they land in heavy rain.
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Gliding involves flying unpowered aircraft using the same naturally occurring currents of air that birds use to fly. Using these invisible currents of air, known as 'lift', you can soar to great heights and travel great distances around the country at average speeds of over 100 miles per hour.