What is "wingbeat"

Usage examples of "wingbeat".

At the last moment Sayan Kotor screamed, and a thunder of wingbeats drowned even the roar of the engine as every bird took off and flew away.

Brunies with the strident little bundle nor the picture-book meadow showed surprise when again something miraculous happened: from the south, from Poland, storks came flying over the meadow with measured wingbeat.

They crashed through the thin lace of branches, ending their dive barely above the ground, and pulling up with wingbeats that sent the snow spraying in all directions.

Little chattering squirrels swarmed from treetop to treetop, crows cawed, and enormous flocks of birds passed over, hundreds of thousands, their wingbeats rushing like ocean surf.

As Madoc and pale, one-armed Cynan ran up the path, the eerie wail was confounded by the thundering wingbeats of scattering vultures.

Thus for one moment I was alone in the marble forecourt, by a chuckling fountain: at once vast wingbeats came, and the horse of heaven.

Stavyor-Snowcloud recognized it, too, and flung himself upward, great white wingbeats stirring the gaping air.

No longer falling, he was soaring upward on powerful wingbeats that thrummed through his whole body.

The sound of hoof-beats merged into great wingbeats as The Horse sprouted white feathered wings and flew up above the snow, above the woods and mountains, through the blue of the sky, and higher yet among the stars.

They stubbed out mosquitoes and fanned away the powdery wingbeats of moths and sipped from ice-filled glasses and held the cold, sweating glasses against their faces and breastbones and stomachs.

Michael had learned the same skills on rocketing Ethiopian snipe and sand-grouse slanting on rapid wingbeat down the African sky.