The way I think about it, smaller birds have less weight and less wind resistance. Shouldn’t that mean they would be faster?
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Everyone talking power.
But it is more down to weight and gravity. A specific mass has a specific terminal velocity, and the heavier you are the higher that is.
Big birds also tend to glide. So they are faster just because they are heavier.
In a “flapping power contest” with no gliding, small birds are deffinitivly faster.
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