What is the only bird that flies whilst asleep?

Answer 1

Swift

Answer 2

The best candidate for a bird that sleeps while flying is the Laysan Albatross, which dwells in skies above northern oceans (such as the Bering Sea.)

Once hatched, an albatross spends her life at sea, except to breed. "They are sometimes seen asleep on the water," says the Arctic Studies Center, a part of the National Museum of Natural History. "But this makes them easy targets for killer whales and stealthy hunters in kayaks; most albatrosses apparently sleep while gliding in the air."

The Laysan Albatross, one of the largest flying birds, has a wingspan greater than six feet (two meters), and, like all albatrosses, flies almost effortlessly. An albatross' heart rate while flying is almost the same as it is at rest.

Swifts are another possibility. Swifts eat, mate, bathe and, perhaps, sleep on the wing. Several thousands of feet up, radar observers in airplanes have monitored flocks of swifts spending the night aloft, write editors Maurice and Robert Burton in The Wildlife Encyclopedia. "Presumably they take short 'catnaps' as they glide between bouts of flapping."

Answer 3

some do. Our falcons, hawks, eagles and owls many times lay down like a broody poultry to circulate to sleep and especially circumstances sunbathe like this too. i think of maximum birds stay perched to sleep using fact they sleep in wood and different such places up off the floor the place this is secure and to lie down you're extra vunerable to different predators using fact they might must be out in the open. I advise ostriches and different flightles birds can not upward thrust up everywhere to perch so as that they do deliver to lie down. geese and chickens additionally lie right down to sleep.

Answer 4

Chimney Swift

It was once thought the albatross and terns slept on the wing but that has since been disproved. They sleep afloat on the waves.
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Answer 5

Laysan Albatross, it is asleep when it flies distances.
The Martin and Swift does also. That's three and counting.

Answer 6

Swallow , Swift or Albatross but in than answer is another question. Sorry.

Answer 7

Albatros

Answer 8

Albatross.

Answer 9

Swift.

Answer 10

The swift sleeps and mates while flying.