Flight image
The flight image is the appearance of a bird in flight when viewed from below .
Especially with larger bird species, the proportions of swing and thrust , length and posture of the neck become clear in the flight image , for example:
- Buzzards : long, broad wings, short thrust;
- Hawks : short, wide wings, long thrust;
- Hawks : long, narrow, pointed wings, short thrust;
- Storks , cranes : neck elongated;
- Heron : neck curved in an S-shape.
Another feature is the type of flight such as gliding (buzzards, eagle ), Shake (Falcon), Gaukelflug ( consecrations ), tearing, fast flight ( duck ) or slower swing beat ( geese , herons).
Many bird species can be identified or addressed based on their characteristic flight pattern .
Flight images
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- Gerhard Seilmeier (Ed.): Jagdlexikon, BLV, 1993 ISBN 978-3405145804