Flight is mainly gliding due to very long primary feathers and small breast muscles.

It had particularly large breast muscles that enabled it to fly for long distances.

The feathers are plucked and usually the breast muscles are eaten first.

"Breast muscles needed for flying are very expensive.

It even tore away some of the surface fibers of the pectoralis major, your breast muscle.

Birds are implanted in their breast muscles.

(Sounds grew muffled; pulse quickened; breast muscles worked enough to feel.

First, the breast muscles are underdeveloped.

The golfclub head, large crop, strong breast muscles create these and they taper off to the tail with a harmonious unity.

However, skeletal evidence suggests that its breast muscles were not powerful enough for wing flapping for extended periods.

When eating, Eurasian Sparrowhawks pluck the feathers and usually eat the breast muscles first.

A fibrous layer deep in the breast muscles can hold the wings rigidly horizontal for gliding and soaring.

They were bred to have huge breast muscles and wings like condors, and to feed on the lichen that grows all over the planet.

I made myself eat the two almond-size breast muscles, which were the only obvious meat; the rest was greasy cartilage and entrail and tiny bones.

Other birds with breast muscle more suitable for sustained flight, such as ducks and geese, have red muscle (and therefore dark meat) throughout.

Several species of pigeons and doves are used as food, and probably any could be; the powerful breast muscles characteristic of the family make excellent meat.

Bulky breast muscles and legs set under the body decrease the efficiency of stride and swing of shoulders, thus hastening fatigue.

The increased T levels are also associated with increased muscle mass (hypertrophy) of the breast muscle, also because of the longer time spent flying.

When the bird is healed, Mrs. Remple said in an interview, a microchip carrying a file number of its medical records is implanted in the breast muscle.

The assistant shot the soup with its myriads of germs into the breast muscles of the chickens-into the new ones, and into the ones that had got better!

He sank the talons of one hand agonizingly deeper and deeper into Kane's breast muscles, while with the other he tore at his foe's head and body.

Narrowness in the chest may be from immaturity, poor body condition, inadequate nutrition, or under-developed breast muscles from a long time in pasture and lack of consistent work.

The largest muscles in the bird are the pectorals, or the breast muscles, which control the wings and make up about 15 - 25% of a flighted bird's body weight.

There was possessiveness in the clasp of his arms about her supple body, but she found a comforting solidity in the breast muscles against which her flaxen head rested.

As a consequence, they have thick, dark myoglobin-rich breast muscles adapted for a fast and aerobically strenuous wing-beat cadence, which they can nonetheless maintain for long periods of time.