Levin looked about him to right and to left, and there, just facing him against the dusky blue sky above the confused mass of tender shoots of the aspens, he saw the
flying bird. It was flying straight towards him; the guttural cry, like the even tearing of some strong stuff, sounded close to his ear; the long beak and neck of the bird could be seen, and at the very instant when Levin was taking aim, behind the bush where Oblonsky stood, there was a flash of red lightning: the bird dropped like an arrow, and darted upwards again.
Seeing that a few members of such water-breathing classes as the Crustacea and Mollusca are adapted to live on the land, and seeing that we have
flying birds and mammals, flying insects of the most diversified types, and formerly had flying reptiles, it is conceivable that flying-fish, which now glide far through the air, slightly rising and turning by the aid of their fluttering fins, might have been modified into perfectly winged animals.
Little cowled figures they seemed at first, going with a rolling motion and as fast as
flying birds.
ISLAMABAD -- A fossil found three decades ago in the US may have been the world's largest ever
flying bird, say researchers.
ABOVE: BIRD FLYING I AND
FLYING BIRD II, PRELIMINARY SKETCHES, 2009
WHEN Parliament had its little get-together last week to swear in new MPs, one-man LibDem awkward squad Bob Russell sported a loud waistcoat emblazoned with a large
flying bird.
That's almost 6 times longer than the wingspan of a wandering albatross--the largest
flying bird alive today.
The female Orb Weaver spins a web of fibers thin enough to be invisible to insect prey, yet tough enough to snare a
flying bird without snapping.
The kori bustard (Ardeotis kori) is the largest
flying bird native to Africa.
flying bird - birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles