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  2. Flying and gliding animals - Wikipedia

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    The heaviest living flying animals are the kori bustard and the great bustard with males reaching 21 kilograms (46 lb). The wandering albatross has the greatest wingspan of any living flying animal at 3.63 metres (11.9 ft). Among living animals which fly over land, the Andean condor and the marabou stork have the largest wingspan at 3.2 metres ...

  3. List of birds by flight speed - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the fastest flying birds in the world. A bird's velocity is necessarily variable; a hunting bird will reach much greater speeds while diving to catch prey than when flying horizontally. The bird that can achieve the greatest airspeed is the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), able to exceed 320 km/h (200 mph) in its dives.

  4. Gliding flight - Wikipedia

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    In addition to mammals and birds, other animals notably flying fish, flying snakes, flying frogs and flying squid also glide. Flying fish taking off. The flights of flying fish are typically around 50 meters (160 ft), [6] though they can use updrafts at the leading edge of waves to cover distances of up to 400 m (1,300 ft).

  5. List of flying mythological creatures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of flying mythological creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. Adzehate creatures

  6. List of birds by flight heights - Wikipedia

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    They also fly over the peaks of the Himalayas on their migratory path. [4] Whooper swan: Cygnus cygnus: Anatidae: 8,200 metres (27,000 feet) This height was attained by a flock of whooper swans flying over Northern Ireland, and recorded by radar. [2] [5] Alpine chough: Pyrrhocorax graculus: Corvidae: 8,000 metres (26,500 feet)

  7. Nasa to fly world’s fastest object closer to the Sun than ...

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    Mission managers will be in the dark about probe’s very bright journey for days

  8. Category:Gliding animals - Wikipedia

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  9. An unusual object is moving so fast it could escape the Milky ...

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    An object spotted with help of citizen scientists was moving so fast through the Milky Way that it could escape the gravity of the galaxy and reach intergalactic space, new research has found.