take wing

His team plans to test this by analyzing weather radar data – which also detects the presence of flying birds, bats and insects – to see if more birds take wing during the eclipse.

Black birds roost on the girders, evenly spaced as beads on a string, then take wing: double-crested cormorants.

I love how every hat at this gathering looks ready to take wing and fly away from its wearer.

Using an expletive, the air traffic controller attempted to stop the Delta aeroplane as it was preparing to take wing.

“You have to have your own internal reason for doing it. For me, it is wanting to share this glorious music and then to see it just take wing and fly.”