Sentence examples for strong fliers from inspiring English sources

Adult horse flies are fast, strong fliers that are usually found around streams, marshes, and wooded areas.

Most shorebirds inhabit open areas and are strong fliers, some performing extensive migrations that cover long distances over water.

The shorebirds lie between the other suborders in flight adaptations; their wings are not adapted for soaring, but they are strong fliers and cover great distances in continuous flight.

(Loons are precocial birds; that is, they are well-developed at birth.) Although loons are strong fliers, all but the small red-throated loon need a broad expanse of water for takeoff.

By the time birds became strong fliers, they were ready to exploit many new environments, and by the Cretaceous Period they had begun to do so, producing the wide array of adaptive types known today.

(Loons are precocial birds; that is, they are well-developed at birth). Although loons are strong fliers, all but the small red-throated loon need a broad expanse of water for takeoff.

The smaller, darker male is a strong flier.

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron is a compact (approx 61 cm), strong flier with populations on the mainland as well as islands from the Galapagos to the Lesser Antilles.

Pteranodon, like other pterosaurs, was a strong flier with a large breastbone, reinforced shoulder girdles, and muscular attachments on the arm bones all evidence of power and maneuverability.

Although it is currently thought that Archaeopteryx could sustain powered flight, it was probably not a strong flier; it may well have ran, leaped, glided, and flapped all in the same day.

The Pacific golden plover, a strong flier, is known for its long-distance migration and routinely shows up far from its normal range in Siberia and western Alaska, where it nests, to Hawaii.