Tallest extant birds

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This is a list of the tallest extant birds according to maximum height. Birds range from a tiny bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae), which is only 5–6 cm, to the giant African ostrich (Struthio camelus), almost 280 cm in height.

Rank Image Common name Binomial name Height
[m (ft)]
1 Struthio camelus in Serengeti crop.jpg Common ostrich Struthio camelus 2.8[1]
2 Somali ostrich.jpg Somali ostrich Struthio molybdophanes 2.75[2]
3 Emu-wild.jpg Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae 1.9[3]
4 Southern Cassowary JCB.jpg Southern cassowary Casuarius casuarius 1.8[4][5]
5 Sarus crane (Grus antigone).jpg Sarus crane Antigone antigone 1.8[6]
6 Casuarius unappendiculatus qtl1.jpg Northern cassowary Casuarius unappendiculatus 1.8[7]
7 Wattled Crane 1400.jpg Wattled crane Grus carunculata 1.75[8]
8 Nandu Rhea americana Tierpark Hellabrunn-1.jpg Greater rhea Rhea americana 1.7[9][10]
9 Grus japonensis -Marwell Wildlife, Hampshire, England-8a.jpg Japanese crane Grus japonensis 1.6[11]
10 Jabiru Mato Grosso Pantanal Brazil-2.jpg Jabiru Jabiru mycteria 1.53[12]

References[]

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  2. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Struthio molybdophanes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22732795A95049558. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22732795A95049558.en. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
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  4. ^ Davies, S.J.J.F. (2003). "Cassowaries". In Hutchins, Michael. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2nd ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp. 75–79. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0
  5. ^ "Southern Cassowary Species account". Animal Life Resource.
  6. ^ Wood, T.C. & Krajewsky, C (1996). "Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation among the subspecies of Sarus Crane (Grus antigone)" (PDF). The Auk. 113 (3): 655–663. doi:10.2307/4088986.
  7. ^ Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
  8. ^ "Wattled Crane". savingcranes.org. International Crane Foundation. Retrieved 31 July 2010.
  9. ^ Davies, S.J.J.F. (2003). "Rheas". In Hutchins, Michael. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2nd ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp. 69–73. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0.
  10. ^ Parizzi, R. C., Santos, J. M., Oliveira, M. F., Maia, M. O., Sousa, J. A., Miglino, M. A., & Santos, T. C. D. (2008). Macroscopic and microscopic anatomy of the oviduct in the sexually mature rhea (Rhea americana). Anatomia, histologia, embryologia, 37(3), 169-176.
  11. ^ del Hoyo, J. Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J.(1996) Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 3: Hoatzins to Auks Lynx Edicions, Barcelona
  12. ^ Hancock & Kushan, Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World. Princeton University Press (1992), ISBN 978-0-12-322730-0
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