Speed = (Distance/Time) * Flapping Velocity?

[zzGypsy]

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ha!
yep, noticed that.

my rooster mostly just pokes about, but if one of his girls squawks he hops over there on the full run. the funny thing is he covers a lot of ground, but his stride speed is kinda slow... his full run looks like the astronaughts on the moon... he gets this long high bounce in every stride.... kinda Boing Boing Boing.... might be getting 10 or 12" of additional ground clearance on each bounce! clearly, gravity does not apply.

the girls, on the other hand, they've got a nice businesslike run - level on the ground and no energy wasted on extra vertical motion. although one of them does hold her folded wings lifted off her body and parallel to the ground... kinda like stabilizing alerons.

now my guineas, on the other hand, can get UP when needed. apparently they were poking about in the 3' weeds near my barn the other day when one of the cats snuck up on them. it really looked like you'd hit the LAUNCH button. two guineas came STRAIGHT up out of the weeds like they'd been bounced off a trampoline! over the top of the weeds, what I saw was them hitting the top of their trajectory then rolling head over heals in the air and vanishing back down into the weeds again! that combined with startled guinea squawk and then the little feathered dinosaurs dashing out of the weeds into the open yard about made me sit down in the grass I was laughing so hard!

 

[Nausicaa]

Lol, I just love watching them run so much, their overly fluffy big butts look so funny in the waddle/run

Mine are still young and (in my opinion not fat enough lol) so they can manage to get airborne enough to fly over tumble weeds

They can also fly/jump straight up to perch on the top of the kennel and coop.

I expect as they plumpen up a little that they'll be a little more grounded.

 

[centrarchid]

Here is what my birds do from stand still. They are capable of much greater when frightened.

Flying upgrade 4 feet over distance of about 250 feet.

Flying upgrade about 2 feet (rooster) and 8 feet (hen) over distance of about 125 feet. Flights occur late in sequence owing to limited editing skills.