Subject: undulating flight
Date: Nov 23 22:45:50 1999
From: sanjer at televar.com - sanjer at televar.com




Michael M Medina wrote:

> Since woodpeckers, some corvids, and finches do it, maybe
> it's an adaptation to woodland life. It seems that the birds that fly
> THROUGH the woods or below canopy have this pattern

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> It would of
> course be related to wing flapping room.

Based on my limited observations......what about the Goshawk... which does
not undulate. At least the one that knocked the hat off a friends head
didn't. Also the Owls I have observed did not undulate.

Jerry and Sandy Converse
Grand Coulee, WA
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