down-curved

A lone whimbrel set down on its migration north, its beautiful brown curves streaked back and its fine down-curved bill like the blown brown grass it walked in.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

They planed for the last part on down-curved wings.

Wild Geese Carla 2008

Predictions: no need for proficient terrestrial abilities (hind limbs may even be strongly reduced); highly developed soaring or gliding skills; jaws elongate with down-curved tips; flexible neck allowing the animal to reach down and behind itself as it picks up food while flying over the water.

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

The birds that do this are specialized for gliding and lack proficient terrestrial abilities, they have to have a flexible neck as they need to reach down and behind themselves as they pick up prey from the water surface, and they all have down-curved bill tips, presumably to aid in grabbing prey.

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

A specialised down-curved tail tip formed the lower lobe to a tail fin, the upper part of which was formed entirely from soft tissues, though with internal support provided by tall, curved neural spines.

My party and those marvellous metriorhynchids Darren Naish 2006

Mycteria (wood storks), for example, has a gently down-curved bill, a particularly dense array of Herbst corpuscles, and muscles that allow the jaws to be closed within 25 milliseconds (one of the fastest reflexes among vertebrates).

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

They planed for the last part on down-curved wings.

Archive 2008-03-01 Carla 2008

A specialised down-curved tail tip formed the lower lobe to a tail fin, the upper part of which was formed entirely from soft tissues, though with internal support provided by tall, curved neural spines.

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

Her short snout resembled that of an anteater—slender, tubular, and ending in a black button nose and down-curved lip.

Distant Shores Edited by Marco Palmieri 2005

Her short snout resembled that of an anteater—slender, tubular, and ending in a black button nose and down-curved lip.

Distant Shores Edited by Marco Palmieri 2005