how many times does a swallow flap its wings?
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As many times as it takes to obtain lift. You have to consider weight and mass of the Swallow.
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How fast the wings beat depends on species, its weight, and what it is doing.\n\nTake the simple case:  a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, hovering in open space, has a wingbeat rate of about 50-52 times per second, which sounds like a low hum and is responsible for the American name, "humming bird."  Another onomatopoeic name, in which the word sounds like its meaning, is the Cuban name for hummingbird, "zum-zum."  \n\nThink about that:  50 times per second is equal to 3,000 times per minute!\n\ncheck this url out for more info:\nhttp://www.hummingbirdsociety.org/eletters/Hummingbirds.On-Line.Issue.5.htm
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A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times in one second or over 5000 times a minute
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Is it an African or a European swallow?
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As many times as you can handle it honey child !!!!
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swallows carry them to your house
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about 8 in the blowhole, 23 in the mouth, and 3 in the @nus.  the answer is 34.
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About 15 times.....stop it!
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The Swallow represents true love.
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Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.\n\nSo 6 times.
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tIME; mY wINGS wON'T cOME sOON eNOUGH....
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It depends on the size of the bird. The largest, the Giant Hummingbird, has a wingbeat rate of 10-15 per second. The fastest recorded rate was about 80 per second, on a tiny Amethyst Woodstar, and the slightly smaller Bee Hummingbird - the world's smallest bird - may have an even faster rate. Common small North American hummers like the Ruby-throated and Rufous average around 53 per second in normal flight.
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I know a story about an emperor who had a songbird that could sing beautifully.  One day he got a mechanical bird that could sing and became enamored with it and forgot about his real bird.  The bird was sad and flew away.  The mechanical bird broke and emperor became sad and realized how much he missed the real bird.  The real bird came and sang for him again.  It is a nice story.
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all the time! Usually i see just the light reflectiong off their wings cause they move so fast! It's a good sign if you do see them. kinda lucky.
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it's similar to the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow.
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For small hummers like Ruby-throated, about 55 times per second. Normal flight speed is about 25 MPH.
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Duh!\n\nAfrican or European?\nThe air speed velocity of an unladen African Swallow= 38 to 40 mph revised Strouhal numbers based on that study all lead me to estimate that the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.