Birds at Altitude

Bird brain doesn't need much oxygen to function.


"pgbnh" wrote in message
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|I am clearly no expert on bird physiology, but what the
heck is a bird
| breathing at 38,000msl????
|
| Possibly a small canister on its back with a little
'birdie-canula' strapped
| to its beak?
| "Andrey Serbinenko" wrote
in message
| ...
| The highest a bird has ever been spotted is about 38,000
msl.
|
| You may find this web-site interesting:
http://www.usahas.com/
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| Andrey
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|
| Judah wrote:
| What's the highest altitude that you ever saw a bird
swoop past your
| plane?
|
| The other day I was flying at 5000' MSL, over land that
was mostly about
| 1000' (so 4000' AGL) and saw a flock of birds, hawks of
some sort I
| think,
| one of which came close enough to make me quite nervous
(although from
| the
| way he was flapping I think he was much more nervous
than I was).
|
| I don't think I've ever seen birds above 3000' MSL /
2500' AGL or so
| before
| and I was pretty surprised...
|
| Do birds typically stay low, or have I just been lucky
until now?
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