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FOR more than twenty years I have watched with admiration the soaring of the black vulture of Jamaica (Vultur aura) When once well up in the air it rarely moves its wings, except to change the direction of its flight. It can soar whenever there is even a light wind.
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COURTENAY, R. The Soaring of Birds. Nature 28, 28–29 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028028a0
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