Sentence examples for flying rapidly from inspiring English sources

Common murres sometimes join in mixed flocks of eider and long-tailed ducks and yellow-billed loons flying rapidly overhead.

Typically, parrots are gregarious and noisy, often forming small groups sometimes huge flocks—flying rapidly high overhead and screeching.

On our drive out and back, the only animal or plant life I saw was a pair of gulls flying rapidly away.

Stefanki said tennis now looked more like its table tennis cousin, with balls flying rapidly across the net, snapping the necks of spectators back and forth.

Courtship is a frenetic affair, with the male flying rapidly back and forth in front of the female, glittering gorget flared, squeaking stridently, and making a thin whining sound with the outer tail-feathers.

Parent birds have been observed using a range of anti-predator strategies: the female staying on the nest until almost touched; one or other of the pair performing distraction displays, fluttering wings and moving across the ground; the female flying rapidly at the intruder; and both birds giving harsh scolding calls when a kookaburra, tiger snake or currawong approached.

Instead they flew rapidly round each other, slewing left and right in ever tightening circles.

Swifts and hummingbirds, with their narrow, curved wings, fly rapidly and maneuver easily.

When they do, the ideas fly rapidly between them, in a kind of shorthand that is hard for others to keep up with.

Kingfishers sit unseen in the rhynes (the narrow ditches that drain water off the land) and then fly rapidly away as I approach.

Birds such as ducks, pigeons, and falcons, which fly rapidly with continuous wing beats, tend to have moderately long, pointed wings.