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 [ edit ]

• Flying and gliding animals
• Shearwaters which use a similar technique

References [ edit ]

• 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