Sentence examples for flying flock from inspiring English sources

The tree sparrow has long been depicted in Chinese and Japanese art, often on a plant spray or in a flying flock, and representations by oriental artists including Hiroshige have featured on the postage stamps of Antigua and Barbuda, Central African Republic, China and the Gambia.

Fruit flies flock to this alcohol as well.

The acoustic situation in a flying bird flock seems not to have been studied, but what may be inferred from other research?

For larger birds, flying in flocks reduces the energy cost.

The African river martin has a chee chee or cheer-cheer-cheer call when it is flying in flocks.

Although often noisy when flying in flocks, it can be silent when seeking prey or thieving food.

Apart from physiological adaptations, migration sometimes requires behavioural changes such as flying in flocks to reduce the energy used in migration or the risk of predation.

The golden white-eye is also aggressive towards the smaller bridled white-eye, chasing it away from food and perches and flying through flocks of them in order to disperse them.

For this, it should be adapted to the specifics of flying and flocking of dunlins.

Bred to fly, a flock of children has to track down its parents, rescue one of its own and save the world.

Flush the literary underbrush one decade and out will fly a flock of novelists or memoirists of a certain stripe; 15 years and a changing of the zeitgeist later, a whole different subspecies will emerge.