Humming birds can! These tiny birds with their high speed wing beats can fly in any direction, even backwards. They can also keep their bodies perfectly still in mid-air.
Some birds, such as herons, egrets, flycatchers and warblers, can flutter backwards for a short distance as a defensive strategy, and some birds, such as cuckoos, if they are flying against a strong wind, appear to be fly backwards, but relative to the air they are moving forwards.
The muscles in a hummingbird’s wings can move their wings up, down, backwards and forwards and they can also rotate them to make a figure of eight. This gives them the ability to make some spectacular airborne moves, including the ability to fly backwards.
Credit : Bird Spot
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