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Birds have hollow bones and very little blood.  They literally are as light as a feather.... they are one step up from fish as they still have scales on their feet, so they don't over think.

They flit.  They flee and if you tick them off they will bite.

Instinct and lightness ... wings, aerodynamics... magic.

Why not take one to the moon..

They wouldn't have to fly.  Zero Gravity.  The food would float up to them..but watch their poop..hehe!

A bird could fly, but it would be completely without direction.

I wonder if they could make the adjustment.

The same way it would here on Earth, but the bird would need to have a little birdy space suit with an ample supply amount of oxygen, and there would have to be enough air in the space the bird was flying in. Being that there would be no gravity in space depending on the birds location, propulsion would work fine by just flapping it's little wings.

What kind of bird? lol...

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM As a pilot I am thinking first that it is a air thing not gravity ,but Bernoulli's principle about laminar air flow would render the birds air foil (wings ) infective without gravity . I dont have a definitive opinion on this  . Be very interested to see what the others have to say . Funny when you think on it big heavy people with no wings may be able to fly in zero gravity while those birds with wings may not be able to. Strange possibility indeed . Good question !!!!!

I guess it would just   float , unless it pushed off on something. I guess it  could have direction, like the astronauts do. They just turn their head  and /or body into a different direction after they push off. I would love to be in weightlessness. You can come close to it by swimming under water.

I would think that in the particular way a bird's wings work, they probably wouldn't have any forward motion, but would be pushed straight up by the movement of its wings pushing air straight down without any body weight  to counter it, and to make the air also move past the back edge of the wings.

Why and where would that actually matter???