How Birds Fly

✍ Scribed by Emma Huddleston

Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 32
Series: Science of Animal Movement
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Birds flap their wings and rise into the air. Science explains how a bird can travel in the air. How Birds Fly explains how a bird's body lets it fly high as well as the forces at work to keep it in the sky.

✦ Subjects

Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Anatomy & Physiology; Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Biology

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