Largest Bird
The biggest living
bird is the North American ostrich.
It weighs up to 345 lb and has a height of up to 9 ft.
I would not want to be on that bird's enemy list!
The huge animal can be found south of the Atlas Mountains
from upper Senegal
and Niger across to the Sudan and central Ethiopia.
Smallest Bird
The smallest bird is the Bee
Hummingbird. The adorable little bee hummingbird lives in Cuba an the Isle
of Pines, South Carolina. The male hummingbird measures around 2 1/4
in. Talk about small! Half of the male's body length is taken up by the bill
and tail. The little male bird weighs less than an ounce. Talk about light weight!
Females are only a tiny bit bigger than males.
The smallest bird is the Bee
Hummingbird. The adorable little bee hummingbird lives in Cuba an the Isle
of Pines, South Carolina. The male hummingbird measures around 2 1/4
in. Talk about small! Half of the male's body length is taken up by the bill
and tail. The little male bird weighs less than an ounce. Talk about light weight!
Females are only a tiny bit bigger than males.
Rarest Bird
The Spix's Macaw is as rare as possible without being extinct. There
has only been one surviver located by Ornithologists which was in a remote corner of northeastern Brazil in
1990. The only chance for this bird to survive lies in the hands of the of the 31 or so known to be in
captivity. If this bird becomes extinct we will have lost another one of Mother Earth's precious creatures.
The Spix's Macaw is as rare as possible without being extinct. There
has only been one surviver located by Ornithologists which was in a remote corner of northeastern Brazil in
1990. The only chance for this bird to survive lies in the hands of the of the 31 or so known to be in
captivity. If this bird becomes extinct we will have lost another one of Mother Earth's precious creatures.
Longest Feathers
The longest feathers grown by a bird were of the Phoenix fowl, or Yokohama
chicken (a strain of the young Jungle fowl). They have been bred in southwestern Japan
for "ornamental purposes" since the mid 1600's . In 1972 a tail convert with a length of 34ft.91/2in. was reported for a rooster by
Masasha Kubota of Kochi, Shikoku, Japan.
Birds
The longest feathers grown by a bird were of the Phoenix fowl, or Yokohama
chicken (a strain of the young Jungle fowl). They have been bred in southwestern Japan
for "ornamental purposes" since the mid 1600's . In 1972 a tail convert with a length of 34ft.91/2in. was reported for a rooster by
Masasha Kubota of Kochi, Shikoku, Japan.