Show Why Geese Fly In V Formation A CIA goose according to to Oliver Wendell Holmes flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical society society society so so- could not improve Wild geese and ducks often fly in a V-shaped V formation but naturalists naturalists naturalists nat nat- have discounted the popular popular lar tar notion that the leader of the flock flying at the apex of the triangle tri tri- angle breaks the wind for the entire entire entire en en- tire group A certain amount of wind is believed advantageous to the sustained flight of birds however however however how how- ever by advancing in wedge formation formation formation for for- mation each bird avoids the wake of the bird preceding and is able to see the leader more clea cleary y than would be pos possible ible in any other formation |