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Is there a scientific system for describing various patterns of bird flight (e.g. the equivalent of terrestrial 'sprinting', 'walking', 'running', etc)?

With horses you have galloping, trotting, etc., but I can't seem to find anything about bird flight.
gpt
Some common types of bird flight are hovering, gliding, thermal soaring, dynamic soaring, diving, undulating, and bounding. Not all birds are capable of all types of flight though and it is more common to classify birds by wing type than flight type.  The four common wing types are elliptical wings, high speed wings, high aspect ratio wings, and soaring wings.