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How birds fly | Sciencelearn Hub - 0 views

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  • Birds have many physical features, besides wings, that work together to enable them to fly. They need lightweight, streamlined, rigid structures for flight. The four forces of flight – weight, lift, drag and thrust – affect the flight of birds.
  • Flying birds have: lightweight, smooth feathers – this reduces the forces of weight and drag a beak, instead of heavy, bony jaws and teeth – this reduces the force of weight an enlarged breastbone called a sternum for flight muscle attachment – this helps with the force of thrust light bones – a bird’s bones are basically hollow with air sacs and thin, tiny cross pieces to make bones stronger – this reduces the force of weight a rigid skeleton to provide firm attachments for powerful flight muscles – this helps with the force of thrust a streamlined body – this helps reduce the force of drag wings – these enable the force of lift.
  • WingsThe shape of a bird’s wing is important for producing lift. The increased speed over a curved, larger wing area creates a longer path of air. This means the air is moving more quickly over the top surface of the wing, reducing air pressure on the top of the wing and creating lift. Also, the angle of the wing (tilted) deflects air downwards, causing a reaction force in the opposite direction and creating lift.Larger wings produce greater lift than smaller wings. So smaller-winged birds (and planes) need to fly faster to maintain the same lift as those with larger wings.Wing loading tells you how fast a bird or plane must fly to be able to maintain lift: wing loading = weight/wing area (kilograms per square metre).A smaller wing loading number means the bird/plane can fly more slowly while still maintaining lift and is more manoeuvrable.
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  • GlidingWhen a bird is gliding, it doesn’t have to do any work. The wings are held out to the side of the body and do not flap. As the wings move through the air, they are held at a slight angle, which deflects the air downwards and causes a reaction in the opposite direction, which is lift. But there is also drag (air resistance) on the bird’s body, so every now and then, the bird has to tilt forward and go into a slight dive so that it can maintain forward speed.
  • SoaringSoaring flight is a special kind of glide in which the bird flies in a rising air current (called a thermal). Because the air is rising, the bird can maintain its height relative to the ground. The albatross uses this type of soaring to support its multi-year voyages at sea.
  • FlappingBirds’ wings flap with an up-and-down motion. This propels them forward. The entire wingspan has to be at the right angle of attack, which means the wings have to twist (and do so automatically) with each downward stroke to keep aligned with the direction of travel.
  • Birds obtain thrust by using their strong muscles and flapping their wings. Some birds may use gravity (for example, jumping from a tree) to give them forward thrust for flight. Others may use a running take-off from the ground.
  • Different birds have different adaptive features to meet their flight needs: Some birds are small and can manipulate their wings and tail to manoeuvre easily, such as the fantail (pīwakawaka). The hawk, with its large wingspan, is capable of speed and soaring. Gannets and seabirds are streamlined to dive at high speeds into the ocean for fish. Godwits, although small, are equipped to fly long distances.
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      garzat5774 on 03 Dec 14
       
      birds have some chacteristics that help them fly, birds are light weighted they have light feathers insted of heavy ones that add more weight to their bodys, they also have a beak insted of jaws that also add weight to their boddys, thay have hollow bones in their body that means that the bone has nothing inside it
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      garzat5774 on 03 Dec 14
       
      birds get ready to fly by flapping their wings, some birds use "gravity" to take of some run and they jump just like an airplane and others jump from a tree and then start flapping their winds
Eugenio Ferrara

Why can't penguins fly? - Science Questions | HighlightsKids.com - 0 views

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  • A penguin’s body isn’t designed to fly. Its wings are too short and stubby. But as you say, they work just fine for swimming. A number of other birds, including the ostrich, can’t fly either
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      Eugenio Ferrara on 04 Nov 14
       
      the penguins wings are designed to swim their are too fat and short for them to fly
    • Eugenio Ferrara
      Eugenio Ferrara on 04 Nov 14
       
      for the penguins swiming and catching fish is more inportant
Eugenio Ferrara

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  • Penguins are birds, so they do have wings. However, the wing structures of penguins are evolved for swimming, rather than flying in the traditional sense. Penguins do “fly” underwater at speeds of up to 15 to 25 miles per hour.
  • As adept swimmers, penguins spend a lot of time in the water. Some penguins spend up to 75 percent of their lives in the water. Like other birds, penguins do lay eggs and they raise their chicks on land.
    • Eugenio Ferrara
      Eugenio Ferrara on 04 Nov 14
       
       all birds have wings such as penguins have wings but they cant fly, most birds use their wings for flying as the penguins, they use them for penguins.  
mijares5812

How planes work | the science of flight - Explain that Stuff - 0 views

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  • If you've ever watched a jet plane taking off or coming in to land, the first thing you'll have noticed is the noise of the engines. Jet engines, which are long metal tubes burning a continuous rush of fuel and air, are far noisier (and far more powerful) than traditional propeller engines. You might think engines are the key to making a plane fly, but you'd be wrong. Things can fly quite happily without engines, as gliders (planes with no engines), paper planes, and indeed gliding birds readily show us.
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      mijares5812 on 04 Nov 14
       
      when your on a plane and you hear the engine you big and powerful the only way that  we fly well... no a bunch of other types of planes fly without engines Gliders that have no engine and birds they are no machine they just glide
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      mijares5812 on 04 Nov 14
       
      the real ways airplanes fly are thanks to the 4 forces the lift from the wings the thrust from the engines the gravity and the drag which  drag the plane to a certain direction
Eugenio Ferrara

'Mystery' of why penguins can't fly is solved: Their wings are better at swimming - 'an... - 0 views

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  • 'Mystery' of why penguins can't fly is solved: Their wings are better at swimming - 'and no bird can excel at both'
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    Mystery' of why penguins can't fly is solved: Their wings are better at swimming - 'and no bird can excel at both'
touche5839

How Do Birds Fly? | ASU - Ask A Biologist - 0 views

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  • Birds use their strong breast muscles to flap their wings and give them the thrust to move throught the air and fly. In a way, birds use a swimming motion to get the lift needed to fly.
garzat5774

Nature vs Nurture: How do baby birds learn how to fly? | Bio-Aerial Locomotion - 1 views

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      garzat5774 on 03 Dec 14
       
      birds learn to fly with practice but it is a natural instinct like how hummans learn to walk and talk, bird parent help them by pushing them out of the nest and for them to try to fly.
Eugenio Ferrara

Why Did Penguins Stop Flying? The Answer Is Evolutionary - 0 views

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      Eugenio Ferrara on 07 Nov 14
       
       the penguins lost their fly oportunity they could do more things as a swimer
jaime5789

"Missing Links" Found between Birds and Dinosaurs - Scientific American - 0 views

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  • "Dinosaurs became ever more 'birdy' over time," Brusatte said, but there was no single missing link, he added. Birds and dinosaurs are like two colors in a rainbow, he said — you can recognize each, but they bleed into each other at their borders.
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      jaime5789 on 07 Nov 14
       
      Scientists think that dinosaurs and birds were connected, not only because they look alike, but because their blood is identical... 
  • The new pedigree of carnivorous dinosaur evolution is the most comprehensive one ever assembled, the researchers say. The findings show that birdlike features such as wings and feathers developed slowly over tens of millions of years.
    • jaime5789
      jaime5789 on 07 Nov 14
       
      Dinosaurs evolved to birds, and it happened slowly, it took millions of years for dinosaurs to evolve into birds... Even though they were always changing, they grew feathers, then developed flying skills!
  • The label of "bird" is somewhat arbitrary, but scientists consider the feathered fossil Archaeopteryx to be the first of the group, Brusatte said. "What probably distinguishes birds is the ability to have powered flight," he said, though it's possible that other dinosaurs could fly too.
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      jaime5789 on 07 Nov 14
       
      We predict that  Archaeopteryx a very early bird, that looks like a dinosaur, and lives with the dinosaurs is what made the birds of today fly! 
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  • the earliest birds would have been indistinguishable from their closest relatives.
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      jaime5789 on 07 Nov 14
       
      The earliest birds such as Archaeopteryx were really hard identify because they were so different compared to the birds we have today!
touche5839

How Birds Fly: An In-Depth Journey North Lesson - 0 views

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  • A bird's center of gravity is the balance point between its two wings and between its head and tail. I
  • To fly well, birds must have most of their weight in their center of gravity, and very little weight in front of or behind it.
  • un into the wind, and the rush of air beneath their wings lifts them up. Others, like puffins and Peregrine Falcons, jump off cliffs and other high perches. Chimney Swifts simply let go of their chimney or other vertical perch, and fall into the air. Hummingbird wingbeats are so powerful that they can go straight up from a perched position without jumping. Songbirds, cranes, and many other species leap up on strong legs while flapping their wings, and there they go.
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  • The reason birds can is because of the special shape of their wings. The bones of bird wing are in front, covered with a smooth layer of feathers that taper toward the back.
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