Are there any flightless birds, and what are the flightless birds

Updated on culture 2024-05-07
9 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    The dodo is a flightless bird that is only found in the island nation of Mauritius in Africa. The fat size always makes it falter, and the combination of a large mouth makes it look a little ugly. Fortunately, there are no natural predators on the island, so they comfortably build nests in the woods to hatch their eggs and reproduce their offspring.

    In the late 16th century, Europeans came to Mauritius with rifles and hounds. The dodo, which can't fly and can't run fast, has doomed her. When the Europeans came to the island, the dodo became their main food**.

    Since then, guns have been beaten by dogs, birds and eggs have been beaten, and a large number of dodos have been killed. Even the young birds and eggs are not immune. In the beginning, Europeans could hunt thousands to tens of thousands of dodos a day, but due to excessive killing, they soon killed fewer and fewer dodos per day, sometimes only a few per day.

    In 1681, the last dodo was brutally murdered, and since then the dodo has never been seen again on earth, except in the herbarium of the museum and in the drawings of painters.

    Curiously, after the extinction of the dodo, it is a precious tree from Mauritius like the dodo--- and the large cranial olive tree has gradually become scarce, and it seems to be suffering from infertility. Originally, the dodo liked to live in the forest of the olive tree, and in the place where the dodo passed, the tree was always flourishing and the seedlings were strong. By the 80s of the 20th century, there were only 13 large cranial olive trees left in Mauritius, and this precious tree was about to disappear from the face of the earth.

    The condition of the tree has made scientists deeply anxious, and rescuing it has become a tense task. Scientists have gone through various experiments and speculations, but several years have passed, and no progress has been made. In 1981, American ecologist Temple also came to Mauritius to study the tree, which coincided with the 300th anniversary of the dodo's extinction.

    Temple carefully measured the growth rings of the tree and found that it was exactly 300 years old, which means that the day of the dodo's extinction was also the time when the tree was sterilized.

    Temple's meticulous discovery revealed that there were several fruits of the olive tree in the dodo's remains, and it turned out that the dodo liked to eat the fruits of this tree. Eventually, Temple deduced that after the fruit of the tree was eaten by the dodo, the fruit was digested, as was the hard shell on the outside of the seed, so that the seed could germinate. Eventually, scientists asked the spitting chicken to eat the fruit of the olive tree in place of the dodo, and the tree was finally extinct.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    Yes. An ostrich is a flightless bird.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Yes. Silly birds. Dead birds. Newborn birds.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    I know 1Penguin.

    2.Cassowary.

    3.Kiwi.

    4.Night parrots.

    5.Owl parrots.

    6.Peruvian cormorant.

    7.American ostrich.

    8.Galapagos small-winged cormorant,

    9.There are emus, ostriches.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Yes, ducks. Ostrich.

    Pheasant. Owls, etc.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Ostriches can't fly.

    Rookies can't fly.

    I don't know what kind of bird you're talking about.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    There are more than 40 flightless birds: ostriches, emus, great American ostriches, cranes, parrots, penguins, white-headed boat ducks, short-winged boat ducks, sandpipers, herons and cranes, etc., which are widely known species, and some belong to other species.

    1. Ostrich. The African ostrich is one of the largest birds in the world with an adult body length of up to 150 kilograms, due to the underdevelopment of the keel process, the wings have been degenerated, and the small and flat sternum makes it unable to fly, but this is the only bird in the world with two toes that can sprint at speeds of more than 70 kilometers per hour on land.

    2. Emus. The emu is an Oceanian specialty, between 150 and 185 cm tall, and the second largest urea in the world, and this kind of wings are more degraded than ostriches, making the world's oldest bird species completely flightless, but it has the ability to run at speeds of up to 69 kilometers per hour.

    3. Great American ostrich.

    The American ostrich is the largest bird in the Americas with a height of about 25 kilograms, although the wings are more developed, but it cannot fly, with its strong and powerful feet, it can reach more than 1 meter in one step, and has a terrible trampling force.

    4. Crane ostriche. Cranes are also known as "cassowaries", with a high body size, the duck ostrich family of birds with blue heads due to the restless degradation of their wings, but with their strong long legs and sharp claws, they are extremely good at running and jumping in tropical rainforest areas, and will use sharp inner toe claws to attack predators or prey.

    5. Parrots.

    The parrot is a nocturnal parrot that is only found in New Zealand and is one of the world's top 10 most prized birds, and is the only one of the world's non-flying parrots due to its short wings and lack of keel to control flight muscles.

    6. Penguins. Penguins are known as the boat of the ocean, found in a total of 18 species in the world, most of which live in the southern hemisphere, one of the world's ten most hardy animals, and this avian penguin family is characterized by its flightless ability, but with its powerful short wings can swim in the water at speeds of between 25 and 30 kilometers per hour.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    Common flightless birds include ostriches, cranes, penguins, parrots, and kiwis.

    1.Ostrich. Ostriches are very typical flightless birds, the largest of which is the African ostrich, and among the modern living birds, the largest bird in the world is the African ostrich.

    It lives mainly in a vast area south of the Atlas Mountains from Hautes Senegal and Niger to Sudan and central Ethiopia and is a species of bird in the Flat-chested order.

    2.Cassowary. The crane ostrich is also a large flightless bird, it is the third largest bird in the world, after the ostrich and the emus, and the wings are very vestigial, more vestigial than those of the ostrich and the American ostrich.

    3.Penguin. There are 17 species of penguins in the world, and none of them can fly.

    They live in cold places, and of course they can't fly because their wings are too small and their bodies are too heavy. Penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere. Antarctica is home to 8 species of penguins.

    Emperor penguins are the largest penguins in the world.

    4.Owl parrot.

    The parrot owl is the only flightless parrot in the world and the largest species of parrot. Parrots owls are mainly found in New Zealand, where they can make sounds up to 132 dB for courtship.

    5.Kiwi.

    Known for its cuteness, the kiwi is a bird that lives in New Zealand. Its chubby body, long straight mouth, and stubby legs resemble the three stubbles in "Star Trek". Since humans are carnivores, the survival of kiwis is threatened, but this bird is also flightless.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Dodos, great American ostriches, emus, puffins, African ostriches, etc., cannot fly.

    1. Dodo: The dodo, also known as the Mauritian bird, the dove, and the lone pigeon, is a flightless bird that is only produced on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. This bird was completely extinct due to human hunting and human activities in just 200 years after its discovery, and it can be called one of the most famous extinct animals after dinosaurs.

    2. Great American Ostrich: The Great American Ostrich is a bird of the American ostrich family of the American ostrich order, with a total of five subspecies. Standing about a metre tall and weighing 25 kilograms, it is the largest bird in the Americas.

    It has three toes, also known as a three-toed ostrich, and although it cannot fly, its wings are relatively developed. There are 10 primordial flight feathers and 3 phalanges. The legs are strong, and all 3 front toes have claws.

    The head, neck, legs, and circumference of the eyes are bare, except for a few feathers. Male and female plumage are similar in color. The body feathers are light and soft, mainly dark gray, and the top of the head is black, with no true tail feathers.

    Social sex. It is found in South America.

    3. Emu: Emu is the only species of the family of Ornithischia, with a body height of 150-185 cm, a weight of 30-45 kg, and a lifespan of 10 years. Famous for its ability to run, it is a specialty of Australia and the second largest bird in the world, second only to the African ostrich, so it is also called the Australian ostrich.

    Adult females are larger than males.

    4. Great puffin: The great puffin is a kind of water bird that cannot fly. It has lived extensively on various islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

    The great puffin is stout with a white belly and black head to back, and resembles a penguin in appearance. It swims very fast in the water, but because its wings have degraded, it can only glide low on the surface of the water, and cannot fly, and it is relatively slow to move on land.

    5. African ostrich: The African ostrich belongs to the ostrich family of the order Ostrichidae, which is one of the largest birds in the world, and the adult bird can reach a height of 25 meters, male ostriches can weigh up to 150 kg.

    The slender neck like a snake supports a small head, with a short, flattened, triangular mouth composed of several sheaths, the main feature is that the keel process is underdeveloped, unable to fly, and it is also the only two-toed bird in the world, with dangerous toenails about 7 cm long on each big toe of its feet, and its hind limbs are thick and powerful, suitable for running.

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