List of soaring birds explained

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

Sea birds

• Albatrosses
• Frigatebirds
• Gulls
• Pelicans
• Petrels
• Shearwaters
• Terns

Extinct

• Argentavis

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Loon, Rael . Sasol Birds - the inside Story . NEW HOLLAND PUBLISHED . City . 2005 . 1-77007-151-2 . 20.