flightless in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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flightless in the PONS Dictionary

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Having no enemies, and taking its food primarily through diving along the food-rich shorelines, the bird eventually became flightless.
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Many reasons were cited for the failure of this flightless bird.
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The female wasps being flightless wait on top of stems for the males, to fly in and carry them off.
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The hindwings are completely absent, and both males and females are flightless.
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Sometimes the bird can damage its wing in a strike but usually survives and is flightless as the wing heals.
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Flightless birds were easy to catch and nests were full of eggs for the taking.
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The ratites are large flightless birds, and include ostriches, rheas, cassowaries, kiwis and emus.
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In that case, the larger dromaeosaurids were secondarily flightless, like the modern ostrich.
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This allowed the evolution of a number of flightless birds and large reptile species.
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About 60 extant bird species are flightless, as were many extinct birds.
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