List of soaring birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of soaring birds, which are birds that can maintain flight without wing flapping, using rising air currents. Many gliding birds are able to "lock" their extended wings by means of a specialized tendon.[1] Bird of prey Buzzards Condors Eagles Falcons Harriers Hawks Kites Osprey Secretary bird Vultures Passerine Choughs Raven Woodswallows Cranes Sandhill Herons Storks Ibises Sea birds Albatrosses Frigatebirds Gulls Pelicans Petrels Shearwaters Terns Extinct Argentavis The red kite soaring. See also Flying and gliding animals Shearwaters which use a similar technique References Soaring at Stanford Birds hosted by Stanford University and based on The Birder's Handbook by Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye MTB Naturalist - our East Bay Soaring Birds by Duncan Parks Birds, Thermals & Soaring Flight at aerospaceweb.org by Jeff Scott, 4 December 2005 [1]Loon, Rael (2005). Sasol Birds - the inside Story. City: NEW HOLLAND PUBLISHED. p. 20. ISBN 1-77007-151-2. Related Articles
