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| What principles do birds depend on to fly |
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Thrust and lift to overcome
drag and gravity |
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| what bird spend most of it life on the wing? |
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| flight maneuvers are made by |
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morphing their wing shape
maximum lift is outstretched wings of long thin wings but are for slower speeds and shallow turns
swept back allows for minimum drag and sharp turns but without lift |
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| talk about what happens after the wing splits the air in flight |
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| the air then moves backward. the round surface on top, compresses and speeds the the air flow .. the concave on the bottom slows the air .. making a pressure differential giving lift.. thrust and lift depend on the angle of the wing relative to the stream of air flow. |
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| long and narrow albatross , petrel and shear waters glide at speeds |
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| broad and rounded for short burst and high maneuvering like woodland species bats robins and sparrows ..minimize drag |
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| High speed wings – found on swallows, falcons, shore birds, and ducks. Birds that feed on the wing or make long migrations. The bones are relatively long, and the wings taper to a point to allow for high flight speed with low drag, and low energy consumption during flight |
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| broad and fingered like vultures, condors, hawks, ospreys, pelicans and eagles. ride on air currents soaring to the top and riding down. albatross and petrel...allow them to soar but limit maneuverability .. These wings are broad and only relatively long, allowing for takeoff and landing in fairly confined areas, high lift, low speed soaring, and slow descents |
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forelimbs are air foils
strong, rigid, light skeleton with hollow bones
coracoid bone to support the shoulder
deep keel
big strong flight muscles of the pectorals and supra coracoideus
high efficiency resp system lungs, air sacs and hemoglobin with high affinity for oxygen
modification of bone with fused hand bone locking joint and wrist that can rotate almost fully
the furcula a spring during the wing bet |
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| where is most of the lift? |
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the secondaries
tilt the wing up increases lift but also drag and can stall when > 15 degrees |
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mostly the primaries .. asymmetrical
pushing down they are solid .. going up they open |
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mostly the primaries .. asymmetrical
pushing down they are solid .. going up they open |
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| on the way to the thumb is the hand that is the |
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| In birds, the _______ is the elastic fold of skin extending from the shoulder to the carpal joint, making up the leading edge of the inner wing. |
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| propatagium on top and metapatagium on the bottomm |
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