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• Main Authors: Wiltschko, Roswitha, Wiltschko, Wolfgang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Central Ornithology Publication Office 2009
• Subjects: Animal Behaviour; Antarctic; Arctic; Kramer; New Zealand; Pacific; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sterna paradisaea; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15952

Their superb ability to fly allows birds to move faster than any other animals: even small passerines fly at top speeds of up to 40-50 km h-1, pigeons can fly about 60-70 km h-1, and birds like swifts are even faster. The distances birds cover during everyday life are considerably longer than those...