THESE PICTURES OF FLYING RECORD HOLDER ANIMALS WITH BRIEF COMMENTS IN POETIC FORMAT SIMPLY COMPEL US TO ADMIRE THEIR ABILITIES WITH WIDE OPEN MOUTH-AGAPE !

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Flying aces
Bumblebee Bumble bee Nest with honey pots
Pahazzard - Wc - cc Phelyan Sanjoin- Flickr-Wc – cc
We are Robust larger hairy fuzzy and not slender like honey bees
sip nectar by long tongues ,eat and collect pollens in our baskets
from flowers we can identify even by their electric fields;
as we are good at Buzz pollination we are also liked by flowers
we store nectar in wax pots made by us & kept in nests unlike others
but what we are famous for is our flying style and ability to fly fast
for we can beat our wings up to 200 times /second and cover up to
15mtr / second i e cross a football field in less than 10 seconds !
vibrating flight muscles like plucked rubber bands
twisting turning flexiblewings ,moving them back and forth
creating vortices like little hurricanes in a unique way, fly away .

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flying fish Flying fish
John Cobb - Unsplash nwf.org
Oh!what a feat ! Taking off @ 56 Km / hr attaining up to 70 km / hr
reach height up to 6 mtrs from sea surface gliding up to 200 mtrs
Wallace’s flying frog Green tree frog
Rushenb – Wc – cc J.G.Pretre- Wc- Publicdomain
With webbed fingers and toes these tree frogsare experts
in leaping from tree to tree and parachuting from great heights.

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Red giant flying squirrel Gliding squirrel
Dr R.K.Das - Conservation india.org Angie spuc – Wc – cc
Gliding from tree to tree with their outstretched patagia
seeing with their large adorable eyes clearly at night
navigating by arms, tail and a cartilaginous spur on the wrist
perform a feat in covering at one go100 m or a football field !
surprise us by their soft silky fur glowing pink under UV light .

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Golden Flying snake
Akash M Deshmukh – Wc – cc Conrad Baetsle – Wc - cc
Without wings fins arms or patagia
glide easily from tree to tree Chrysopelea*
better than flying squirrels and other gliders !
by folding body variously and serpentine motions
forming C shape,- flattening abdomen & lateral undulation
creating a spinning disc like lifting effectand undulating motion
glide smoothly - covering up to 100 meters without hesitation.
*flying snakes

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Flying Lizard - Draco
A.S.Kono – Wc – cc
They are called flying dragons , but are really lizards
that glide from tree to tree in dense tropical jungles
with the help of wing like patagia , steering with tails
stabilizing with gular flag - their throat flap
used also for display as well to lure females
They resort to gliding generally to escape from predators
covering up to 60 m distance and reaching up to 10 m in height
which is really a feat considering these ‘ dragons ’!
are only 7-8 inches long tiny little creatures.!

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Sugar Glider - flying opossum
J. C Boone – Wc – cc A Meyrin,J hornung-Wc – cc
We are little flying marsupials, gliding from tree to tree
nocturnal mammals ,carrying tiny babies in our pouch, with glee
we fly by our patagia stretching from fore arms to feet
steering by our furry tail, flying up to 50 *meters in one leap.
[ *Yellow bellied up to 140 meters! that is even across a football field !]

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Swans
Bowenpan – Wc – cc
Pure white , with a sense of seasons and migrations
a beautiful creation of Nature ,favourite of goddesses
inspiring ideas in art and science , literature and religion
living lovingly lifelong flying distant destinations
flying up to 100- 139 Km / hr for 8 hours a day
reaching up to 27000 ft above sea level during migrations
to thousands of kilometers apart destinations.

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Migratory birds
Sandpipers – the accomplished fliers
Red knot Large flocks roosting
Chuck Homler – Wc – cc Boghumper – Wc – cc
These tiny but extraordinary birds on their epic journey
migrating from one end of the world to another- yearly
on a marathon flight from North Americas’s northern shores
to the south Americas southern tip at Terra del fugos shores
and back - an annual trip of 19000 miles, are an enigma indeed
flying fast even up to 6-8 days at a stretch ,whenever required;
And those born a few days ago flying away for the first time
along an unknown route to an unknown destination - Oh ! How!.