Sentences with phrase «nearly flightless birds»

And how can these nearly flightless birds appear so quickly?

Not exact matches

Scientists at Harvard University have assembled the first nearly complete genome of the little bush moa, a flightless bird that went extinct soon after Polynesians settled New Zealand in the late 13th century.

There was the sunburn that made lying in a sleeping bag excruciating (that was the hubby), rain that nearly washed our tent off a hill and some sort of large, flightless bird threatening to run into camp and do away with us (raccoons sound a lot like squawking chickens, and yes, that one was all me).

As you would expect from an island with unspoilt terrain, Stewart is home to many species of bird including 20,000 of the endangered brown kiwi, the flightless Stewart Island kiwi and the nearly extinct kakapo parrot.