Sentence examples for stretch wings from inspiring English sources

They twist stiff necks and stretch wings before taking off with a whirr.

Arrive early: although emperors rarely stretch wings until the air is warm, their feeding forays usually cease by 10am, when they return to canopy concealment.

By seven days, they are stretching wings and preening, and at two weeks they are able to fly.

Dawkins and Hardie (1989) looked at the average space required by a hen to carry out basic needs and found that a bird requires an average space of 198 square inches to turn, stretching wings requires 138 square inches, and flapping wings requires 290 square inches.

Once the lights came on in the Novel Environment Test, we recorded the bird's latency to move (Lat(move)), with immobility defined as staying in one location without moving with both its feet, flying, ruffling the feathers, stretching wings, or wiping the bill, allowing only head movements; we could not exclude the latter because of the angle and resolution of the video image.

We also noted other behaviors such as foraging, preening, stretching wings, and sleeping.

If the butterflies emerge too close to the bottom of the jar, or in a cramped spot where they can't hang and stretch their wings, their wings won't properly form and they won't be able to fly.

Should she stretch her wings and fly away?

Here, hens can stretch their wings and move a bit.

The agreement, he said, allowed Virgin "to stretch our wings even further, and continue innovating.

Chickens naturally need a place to scratch, he said, and room to stretch their wings.