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- From: adams@pyramid.unr.edu (Brian Adams)
- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Subject: Re: Kiting vs "kiting"
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 03:05:34 GMT
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- In article <1e0omdINNq7i@corax.udac.uu.se> ignaz@astro.uu.se writes:
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- >No bird flies like a hummingbird. The difference is the wing movement.
- >Hummingbirds move their wings not up and down as all other flying birds,
- >but in a complicated way where the base of the wing is moved mainly
- >forward and backward wheras the curve that the tip of the wings
- >describe in the air very much resembles the figure eight. Complicated.
- >Hummingbirds should be compared to helicopters (they can fly straight
- >upward too!) whereas all other birds should be compared with ordinary
- >airplanes. Some of these latter can stand still in the air by tilting
- >their wings and/or make use of the wind or rising hot air, but it is
- >fundamentally different from hummingbirds.
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- Nowhere in my post did I assert that CHickadees "fly like Hummingbirds."
- I conceded that Hummingbirds are superior aerobats. Nevertheless, the
- Chickadee I described was "hovering" by any reasonable definition of the
- word, and I believe even by the strictest definition.
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- Brian Adams
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