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How Fast and High Do Birds Fly?

Geese fly at 29,000 feet.

1 posted on 09/14/2007 2:18:42 PM PDT by blam
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An outstanding feat of endurance and bird brain intelligence. But this bird is a robot. It’s just following a migration script. With better intelligence it could find closer seasonal feeding grounds. Would not have to fly so far


37 posted on 09/14/2007 4:02:37 PM PDT by dennisw
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Big deal. The bird sleeps for the next three weeks.


44 posted on 09/14/2007 7:41:09 PM PDT by Nachoman (My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
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"It's the equivalent of a human running at 70 kilometers an hour [43.5 miles an hour] for more then seven days."

Only....it's nothing like that...at all.

47 posted on 09/14/2007 9:15:57 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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That’s incredible. My first response, though, was could it do this while carrying a coconut? Or perhaps two Alaskan birds could carry it between them...


53 posted on 09/22/2007 12:16:44 PM PDT by MikeD (We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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