What is the largest flying bird? Detailed answer

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What is the largest flying bird?

The largest bird on earth cannot fly at all. This is an African ostrich. It reaches 2,5 m in height and weighs over 135 kg. It would be hard work to lift such a bird into the air.

Two species have the largest wingspan of flying birds: the albatross and the condor. Adult birds weigh about 13 kg.

A wandering albatross leads the parade of the largest flying birds. Its wingspan is more than 3,5 m. In the condor, this value reaches 3,5 m. Next comes the royal vulture. It lives in South America, Mexico and Central America. Its wingspan reaches 3 m.

The white pelican, the next largest representative (wingspan - more than 2,5 m), lives in Canada and the southern states, and flies to another coast in winter. The great bustard - a huge anseriform feathered bird - is related to the crane. It lives in Europe, Asia and Africa, with a wingspan of more than 2,5 m.

Next come the bald and golden eagles. Then cranes (with a wingspan of up to 2 m), brown pelican and buzzard have about the same size.

The flight speed of different birds varies greatly. The highest measured speed belongs to two swifts from India. They flew at a rate of 3,2 km, covering this distance in 36 and 42 seconds, that is, 274 and 320 km / h!

After swifts, probably the fastest birds are the marsh harrier and its relatives. They, according to known data, fly 264-288 kilometers per hour! Domestic pigeon - about 96 kilometers per hour, and hummingbirds - from 80 to 88 kilometers per hour!

Author: Likum A.

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What is the largest snake in the world?

There are over 2000 different types of snakes. These creatures cause negative emotions in people, which has led to many erroneous stories about them. So, sometimes they say that there are huge, terrifying snakes from 18 to 21 meters long!

But, in truth, snakes never grow to such enormous sizes, although some are quite large. The first place in size is occupied by the royal python, which is only 10 meters long. (Measure your room, and then you will really imagine its size.) This animal lives in the Malay Peninsula, Burma, Indochina and the Philippine Islands.

The second largest snake is the anaconda living in the tropics of South America. It reaches 7 meters. It certainly isn't "short" either.

The next is the Indian python, he lives in India and on the Malay Peninsula and grows up to 6-7 meters. The African rock python is about the same length. The diamond python, found in Australia and New Guinea, grows up to 6,5 m.

Now we will talk about the snake, which for some reason many people consider the largest in the world. This is a boa constrictor, but most of them barely reach 5 meters. This disgusting creature lives in Southern Mexico, Central and South America.

The king cobra, another nasty member of the royal family, reaches a maximum length of 5,5 meters. But what are the longest snakes living in the United States? The largest of these is the eastern diamond rattlesnake. It grows up to 2 meters in length. All other snakes living in the USA hardly reach a maximum of 2 meters.

By the way, although the king python is the longest known snake, it is far from the heaviest. The shorter anaconda can weigh 160 kg, which is 45 kg more than the heaviest of the pythons.

The longest venomous snake is the king cobra and the heaviest is the diamond rattlesnake.

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