Beware confusion with dark extreme Pink-footed Shearwater, which shares similar size, shape, and flight style.
In flight, it very closely resembles the plumage, flight profile and flight style of the larger Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura).
In flight, it is best distinguished from other white herons by its small size and rapid, choppy flight style.
As with many other species of tubenoses, the "field marks" for identification at sea away from the breeding sites depend as much (or more) on factors such as flight style than on details of the plumage.
It is a red-headed vulture with extremely long wings which it holds in a shallow "V" (dihedral), this flight style allows it to fly close to the ground in turbulent areas, and to soar in tight circles if it needs to catch a small thermal for lift.
Much has been redone since then, but the basics of the Virgin Galactic flight style are the same.
Any artificial wing that doesn't stretch and billow like the bat's membrane is missing out on a key characteristic of its flight style.
On the other hand, eliminate too many of the joints and the resulting flight style is nothing like the fluid, elegant motion of the bat.
The North Pacific albatrosses can use a flight style known as flap-gliding, where the bird progresses by bursts of flapping followed by gliding.
The peregrine falcon has the additional advantage of a natural flight style of circling above the falconer ("waiting on") for game to be flushed, and then performing an effective and exciting high speed diving stoop to take the quarry.
Wing planform is highly diagnostic of flight style in extant animals [85], but controversy over the shape of the pterosaur brachiopatagium has resulted in multiple interpretations of azhdarchid flight style.
