[Vocabulary] Can a bird glide?

[Marina Gaidar]

Can a bird glide?
The FALCON is gliding above the forest.

I used the verb "hover" before and now I just don't want to repeat one and the same verb in one abstract. Can "hover" and "glide" be interchangible?

 

[Rover_KE]

Many birds can glide, but hover and glide are definitely not interchangeable.

See the dictionary definitions of these words: hover and glide.

Rover