You know the British are falling in love with a large, ungainly bird when they agree to cook it twice a year.

Together, like a flock of ungainly birds, hands clasped for mutual aid, they rose up and flew away from the city.

While it can give the impression of being an ungainly bird on the ground, the Jabiru is a powerful and graceful flier.

A flock of ungainly birds spooked as Dolph landed on the beach.

The picture is that of an ungainly bird sitting in a tree under which an animal is lying.

It was a huge ungainly bird with curiously slow and mechanical wing movements that made it seem man-made.

It perched there like a great, ungainly bird, then dropped out of sight.

The helicopter came in low over the distant forest, like an ungainly bird.

It was a flock of big ungainly birds.

These are the unanswered questions surrounding the discovery of the gallinule, an ungainly bird that has never been seen in flight north of Venezuela.