 At times 4 or 5 individuals become detached, and until they can unite with a stronger party they fly Irregularly about as though bewildered, continually uttering their harsh notes, and hurry eagerly away to join the first flock that comes in view. The...  Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club - Page 135by Nuttall Ornithological Club - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer - 1918 - 706 lehte
...flocks almost invariably coalesce when they draw near each other. This frequently occurs, until ... it results in a single flock numbering between four...to allow a free wing-stroke. Thus ranged the flock seems governed by a single impulse, which sends it gliding along parallel and close to the ground,... | |
 | Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer - 1918 - 704 lehte
...continually uttering their harsh notes, and hurry eagerly away to join the first flock that cornea in view. The order of flight is invariably a single...to allow a free wing-stroke. Thus ranged the flock seems governed by a single impulse, which sends it gliding along parallel and close to the ground,... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Bent - 1923 - 770 lehte
...comprising from 20 to 50 or more, and it Is rare to see less than 10 or 15 In a party. At times 4 or 5 individuals become detached, and until they can unite...room enough between the individuals to allow a free wing stroke. Thus ranged, the flock seems governed by a single impulse, which sends it gliding along... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Bent - 1925 - 458 lehte
...they fly irregularly about as though bewildered, continually uttering their harsh notes, and hnrry eagerly away to join the first flock that comes in...room enough between the individuals to allow a free wing stroke. Thus ranged, the flock seems governed by a single impulse, which sends it gliding along... | |
 | Francis H. Kortright - 1942 - 500 lehte
...bird with a velocity far greater than that attained by any other goose with which I am acquainted .... The order of flight is invariably a single rank, the...room enough between the individuals to allow a free wing stroke .... The entire flock, consisting of perhaps over a hundred birds arranged in single line,... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1925 - 1048 lehte
...comprising from 20 to 50 or more, and It Is rare to see less than 10 or 15 In a party. At times 4 or 5 indivIduals become detached, and until they can unite...room enough between the individuals to allow a free wing stroke. Thus ranged, the flock seems governed by a single impulse, which sends it gliding along... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Bent - 1987 - 718 lehte
...flock that comes in view. The order of flight is inruriahly a single raak, the blrds moving side hy side in a line at right angles to their course so that the entire strength of a flock ls to he ssen at a glance along its front, which at times covers several bundred yards. There is harely... | |
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