avian flight Quotes

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.

A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.

I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.