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Meanings of flightless birds in inglês

russo
нелетающие птицы
português
aves não voadoras
espanhol
ave no voladora
catalão
ocell no volador

Bird that lack the ability to fly.

aves não voadoras
Sinônimos
Examples for "flightless bird"
Examples for "flightless bird"
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Gardaí have said they are investigating the case of the missing flightless bird.
The Irish Times
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Imagine if you were a flightless bird with young to protect.
The Irish Times
3
Most folks, Rant says, move through time like a flightless bird on land.
Rant: an oral biography of buster casey
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A flightless bird that survived here because it was never threatened.
Full Circle
5
But how did such the strange looking, flightless bird rise to such lofty heights?
Radio NZ
Usage of flightless birds in inglês
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They were large, bipedal, flightless birds, covered with reddish-gray scales instead of feathers.
The broken blade
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Maybe flightless birds were the leading edge.
Wired
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But flightless birds are last season now.
The Irish Times
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Dodos were flightless birds, related to pigeons.
BBC
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Presumably, hitting defenceless, tame, flightless birds over the head with a club was just something to do.
The god delusion
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The wekas or Maori hens are small, flightless birds, averaging when full grown about two and three-quarter pounds.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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Paleontologists have used fossilised moa droppings to reconstruct the feeding habits of four types of these extinct flightless birds.
Radio NZ
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All these flightless birds, as well as others such as the ostrich, are part of a group called ratites.
Radio NZ
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They are descended from flightless birds, with highly coloured plumage, sharp beaks, downy breasts...
What does a martian look like?
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Down the road we could see the zombies of Wisconsin heading south, a giant flock of stinking flightless birds.
Brains: a zombie memoir
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It's made it into the journal Science, this research into the genomes of eight flightless birds, including our kiwi and moa.
Radio NZ
12
Both also fondly remember Mr Penguin, a man from Belgium who so loved the flightless birds that he dressed as one.
The Guardian
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On a semi-tropical rainforest walk, I clapped my hands and chirping flightless birds ran towards me, tame from lack of predators.
BBC
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They have spread widely, and have not confined their depredations to the rabbits, so that the indigenous flightless birds have suffered largely.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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They are flightless birds, but excellent swimmers and tremendous in size, with white breast, short wings, black head, and long peaked bills.
The Smoky God; Or, A Voyage to the Inner World
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With few cars on the road and a decrease in sound pollution, these flightless birds were free to roam the streets of Simon's Town.
The South African
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Translations for flightless birds
Flightless birds through the time