What is flight?
Q: What is flight?
A: Flight is a method of moving through the air.
Q: What do birds use to fly?
A: Birds use wings with light, hollow bones and feathers on them.
Q: How do birds move through air more easily?
A: Birds have a streamlined body shape, so that they slip through air more easily.
Q: What is hovering?
A: Hovering is when birds stay in the same place by flapping their wings rapidly, such as with the kestrel.
Q: How do birds that soar fly with little energy?
A: Birds that soar use columns of rising hot air to lift them, gliding from the top of one to another, and needing little energy.
Q: What is diving?
A: Diving is when birds like hawks and gannets fold their wings and dive head-first onto their prey.
Q: How do birds like buzzards fly all day?
A: Birds like buzzards use very little energy by gliding from one warm air current to another, to fly all day without tiring out.
