They glide down over the surface of the water ... Despite being heavy birds, geese can fly over 30 miles per hour. They use forceful wing beats instead of gliding in the air like eagles.

Soaring birds like osprey and eagles can stay aloft in air for long durations without flapping their wings. Their ability to glide along rising air currents has long fascinated humans. The new ...

When vertebrates moved onto land, long ago, some of them eventually became airborne, way after the insects did. There are ...

Andean condors are massive birds, among the largest in the world that are able to fly. Because they are so ... to live in windy areas where they can glide on air currents with little effort.

If birds left tracks in the sky ... Evoking an airborne serpent, western marsh harriers glide above trees where great cormorants perch. The wildlife-rich wetlands of Estany d’Ivars i Vila ...

One can glide through the Yangtze River alongside finless porpoises, soar thousands of miles with migratory birds, or dash ...

In modern birds, these bones are totally fused and, due to their length, are often mistaken for the lower legs. This gives birds their distinct—and misleading—"backward-facing knee" look.