Unlike modern raptorial birds, pterosaurs hawking airborne prey would have to rely on their jaws for prey capture rather than their limbs: employment of any limb in mid-air prey capture would compromise the wing membrane and stall the wing.
In addition to surface feeding and diving, they have also been observed plunge diving from the air to snatch prey.
"He knows he is stronger than Evra in the air and was preying on his weakness.
Falconini might even attempt beak attacks mid-air, if the prey item is held onto in flight [9].
In "Hero," an ambitious period epic about the birth of the first Chinese empire, warriors fly through the air like birds of prey, their swords cutting through enemies and lovers alike.
The Delichon species typically feed higher in the air, and take smaller prey than other swallows.
Behaviour is diverse, from the almost inert parasitic forms, whose larvae lie in the nutrient bloodstreams of their hosts and feed by absorption, to dragonflies that pursue victims in the air, tiger beetles that outrun prey on land, and dytiscid beetles that outswim prey in water.
Some are quick, and, with the speed of swallows, snatch their prey from the air.
Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing.
Many owl species are renowned for their ability to fly almost completely silently, without the flapping noises and air whooshes that might warn prey of their approach.
It makes a swift-footed bustling sprint of a metre or so and then comes to an abrupt halt, snout down in the short grass, posterior raised in the air, as it seizes whatever prey it has found.
