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A birds flight is powered by large muscles inside its body. powerful chest muscles flap the wings up and down.
The tail of a bird is used for steering.
How Do Loons Fly?
Note: A bird's wings, and each of its feathers, are shaped much like an aircraft's wing -curved on top and flatter underneath.
The loon takes flight by flapping its wings very hard and basicly runs across the water and when in flight it can reduse the rate of the beating of its the wings.
The bones of a bird contain many hollow spaces, making the bird lightweight but strong.
Fact: A bird's collar bone is fused in a wishbone shape that forms a rigid frame so its body is not squashed when the powerful wing muscles contract.
Loons fly in groups called flawckes.
