This neatly solves the age-old problem of how "flightless" birds could have reached the different continents: they were not flightless at all, and simply flew. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
"flightless" nodes, and perhaps also to images of prototypical kiwis. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinese Room Argument] Reference
An emu, a huge flightless bird, suddenly runs past. From Wordnik.com. [Weaving the Land into Stories, and History] Reference
Why such an effort-for one flightless little centaur?. From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
Some of the other big flightless birds they have here?. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
The flightless bird said, “So what are we looking for?”. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned Hopes]
The next one is trickier: "This flightless bird lives in the Ituri forest.". From Wordnik.com. [Who Gets Games? Mark Burnett] Reference
The long-billed flightless thrush had more than enough meat for both of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
The flightless birds were big enough to pick up dog-size animals in their beaks. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2006] Reference
Stan Sesser The flightless cormorants of Fernandina Island show Darwinism at work. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism at Work] Reference
Listening to Anti-Flag makes it an obvious fact that I am a large flightless bird. From Wordnik.com. [hamletwildie Diary Entry] Reference
Wisely, I hop the fence first, and slowly herd the flightless bird closer to the fence. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Running in place, flightless birds, grown man tickle fights - that's definitely not right. From Wordnik.com. [Political Conservative TV Network Up And Running] Reference
KFC's a meaningless acronym that renounces flightless birds, the Bluegrass State, and trans fat. From Wordnik.com. [Military Contractor Blackwater Changes Its Name] Reference
Maybe there were larger animals still, maybe some flightless relative of that leathery creature. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
The Penguins consist of seventeen species of flightless seabird found in the southern hemisphere. From Wordnik.com. [Penguins] Reference
Nearly 1,000 of the flightless birds have turned up on Brazil's northeastern coast in recent months. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2008] Reference
New Zealandwhile not an official symbol, the Kiwi, a small native flightless bird, represents New Zealand. From Wordnik.com. [Government-note] Reference
The last of our kind, evolving flightless we remain on the ground, culling through corpulent consumption. From Wordnik.com. [Going the Way of the Dodo] Reference
New Zealand while not an official symbol, the Kiwi, a small native flightless bird, represents New Zealand. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Government - note: while not an official symbol, the Kiwi, a small native flightless bird, represents New Zealand. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Notable is the presence of the flightless Australian cassowary Casuarius casuarius, one of the largest birds in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia] Reference
The cats, brought to the island to chase vermin, killed off the dozens of the only-known flightless wren still in existence. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK REVIEW FROM THE EDGE OF THE PLANET: Bill Bryson's A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING ] Reference
The ban also extended to emus, another flightless bird commonly found in Australia, but also farmed in limited numbers in South. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The ban also extended to emus, another flightless bird commonly found in Australia, but also farmed in limited numbers in South Africa. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The male Moonlanders have purple wings, but the females are flightless; they are mated from birth and are also united in the after life. From Wordnik.com. [Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench (1768-1827)] Reference
When Polynesian seafarers reached Easter Island about 1,300 to 1,700 years ago, they landed on a forested island full of flightless birds. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Beetles are the dominant order and Otago has a number of distinctive species, particularly the flightless chafers of the genus Prodontria. From Wordnik.com. [Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands] Reference
When we are ready to return, I will carry the flightless member of your party, and we will pass the Stork Works and select our destination. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
When the pan dried up earlier than usual in June 1969, the lack of water forced the adult flamingos to depart, leaving flightless chicks to starve to death. From Wordnik.com. [Etosha Pan halophytics] Reference
The flightless cormorants, for instance, a bird native to the Galapagos, exchanged their ability to fly for stronger legs to enhance their swimming and diving prowess. From Wordnik.com. [Galapagos Under Siege] Reference
Moreover, it is the only hotspot to have an endemic bird Order, represented by the endearing, flightless kiwis (Apterygiformes), also the national bird of New Zealand. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in New Zealand] Reference
Of the four land birds the Inaccessible Island rail Atlantisia rogersi (VU), the smallest existing flightless bird, is found only on the island in a population of 8,500. From Wordnik.com. [Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference
A number of birds and insects are flightless and there are no alien species except for invertebrates, although in the past pigs, goats, sheep and cattle were all introduced. From Wordnik.com. [Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference
Those who reached New Guinea and Australia, then joined by a landbridge, might have found a better living hunting now extinct species of large marsupials and flightless birds. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Seafarers] Reference
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