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OCR: FLIGHT Birds FLIGHT PATHS PATHS AND PATTERNS earning to identify bird in flight will hawk's flight as it rises with the thermals greatly increase birder's skills. Birds do not all fly the same way You will need to practice watching birds in motion. vou op make note of the style of flight. Look af Straight. as the Mourning the wing beat and wing shape Watch the path Dove flies they draw in the sky. Even the silhouette ofa Wing Beats bird in flight is an aid in identification Compare the quick wing beat t of the Canvasback.. to the labored beat the White Pelican on take-off An Osprev hovering over the deen wing stroke ts prey of the Sanderling ..to the continuous wing THE Hovering THE Soaring beat of the Peregrine Falcon the halting wing beat of the Sharp- shinned Hawk AFlicker' undulating f ...