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Flight adaptations exhibited by birds

Write about the various flight adaptations exhibited by the birds?

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Wings are associated to the well-built pectoral musculature, pneumatic bones, nonexistence of the bladder thus no urine storage, low accumulation of feces within the bowels due to the lack of colon, aerodynamic body and lungs with specialized air sacs are all adaptations that make the birds to fly.

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