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I am in first grade.Can you please tell me how can birds fly without moving their wings?


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Soaring birds find rising air and ride it up. This can come from air that is rising after it is warmed or sometimes from air that is blowing up a mountain side.

This is the same way that a man can stay up in a glider.

Larry Krengel


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