| Most small bird. Dwarf males shmelevidnyh Kolibri (Mellisuga helenae), living in Cuba, have a lot of 1.6 grams and length - 5.7 cm (half the length of beak and tail). |
| The smallest bird of prey. Chernonogy shrike (Microhierax fringillarius) in the south-east Asia and belogrudy or borneysky, shrike (M. latifrons), living in the northwest on. Borneo, an average size of 14-15 cm, including pyatisantimetrovy tail . Their weight - about 35 g. |
| The highest flying bird. The largest cranes (family Gruidae) may be an increase of almost 2 hours |
  Toughest flying birds. Drofa Cory (Ardeolis kori) from the North-East and South Africa and a great bustard (Otis tarda), who lived in Europe and Asia, weigh about 18-19 kg. Reported that in northeast China was a big drofy plug male weighing 21 kg. It was so heavy that could not fly. |
  Toughest Egyptian vulture. Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) - the worst of the Egyptian vulture. Males weigh 9-12 kg, and the magnitude of their wings at least 3 hours
Male California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus), exposed in the California Academy of Sciences, had a mass, according to reports, 14.1 kg. Usually, however, it typically does not exceed 10.4 kg. |
 Large flocks. Flamingo with their long sheyami and feet are growth 0,9-1,5 m. This is the largest birds gather in flocks. Of the four types of small flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor), found in Eastern and Southern Africa, is the largest flock - in the several millions of birds. More often than not, they can be seen in the Great Lakes of East Africa. |
| The longest feathers. Bird-phoenix, or Yokohama chicken (red rock shrub chicken Gallus gallus), divorces in Japan because of the bright plumage. In 1972 he was reported to the rooster tail feathers size of 10.6 m. |
 The longest beak. Klyuv Australian pelican (Pelicanus conspicillatus) has a length of 34-47 see
The longest, with respect to the length tylovischa, beak from mecheklyuvogo Kolibri (Ensifera ensifera), living in the Andes. His beak (10.2 cm) longer than the trunk of poultry (excluding the tail). |
 The largest bird. The largest and strongest currently living neletayuschih birds - North African Ostrich (Struthio camelus camelus). Males can be increase to 2.75 m and a mass of 156.5 kg. The immune system of adult birds - the most effective among all other animals. South Africa was the first country where the appreciation for the commercial value of products derived from the ostrich. The bird is valued not only for big and soft feathers and good meat, but also because skin, which produces the most solid in the world skin. It is believed that strausovye farms emerged in the Karu East Cape around 1863 By 1910, there were more than 20,000 domesticated ostriches, and by 1913 strausovye feathers were the main exports of South Africa. Later, the demand for feathers began to fall, but in the 1920's. When farmers began to produce biltong (vyalenogo strips of ostrich meat), interest in ostriches again revived. Strausovye farms now available in 50 countries, especially many of South Africa, Algeria, Australia, France and USA. This ostriches are not facing extinction: at present, worldwide there are approximately 1.75 million birds are manageable, they can be used for riding and variety shows. |
| The biggest eyes. The ostrich biggest eyes of all land animals. The diameter of the eye can reach 5 cm |
  Most flying bird. Juveniles dark krachki (Sterna fuscata) withdrew their breeding and kept in the air 3-10 years, only occasionally descending to water. Birds were returning to land only by adults for reproduction.
The longest flight. Common tern (Sterna hirundo), Okol'covannaja in June 1996 in Finland, was again caught on with. Rotama (State of Victoria, Australia) in January 1997 It flew 200 km per day. |
  Most slow flight. The American woodcock (Scolopax minor) and the Eurasian woodcock (S. rusticola) during the marriage game can fly at speeds of 8 km / h, no disruption of the peak. |
| The most rare traffic wings. The most rare sweep wings during this flight in a straight - one stroke per second. This is capable of several types of neck - the inhabitants of the New World (family Cathartidae). |
| The largest scale of the wings. Who lived in South America 6-8 million years ago teratoron (Argentavis magnificens), estimated at a magnitude of 7.6 m. wings |
 The fastest flying bird. Sapsan (Falco peregrinus) - This is the quick breather. It develops at a minimum speed of 200 km / h and possibly up to 270 km / h, throwing with great height to mark their territory or in the air to catch prey. |
 The most rapid movement of wings. Rogaty Sanjaya (Heliactin cornuta), humming-bird from South America, makes wings 90 stroke per minute. |
| The most rapid land bird. Despite its large size, ostrich, if necessary, can run at speeds up to 72 km / h. |
Birds flying above all. Grif Ruppela (Gyps ruerrellii) collided with a passenger plane over the city of Abidjan (Kot d'Ivoire) at an altitude of 11,300 meters in November 1973, one of the engines of the aircraft was damaged but the plane landed safely. Birds of this kind rarely seen in the elevations over 6000 m.
 In 1967, 30 whooping swan (Cygnus cygnus) were seen pilot of the aircraft at an altitude of just over 8230 meters above Gebridskimi of-you (Britain). They flew from Iceland to the lake. Foyl on the border of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The height of confirmed employees tracking station. |
 Wing span. Among the currently living on Earth birds wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) is the largest magnitude of the wings. He could steam into the air above the water, not working in the wings for several hours kryadu. The largest instance of a very old male with a magnitude of 3.63 m. Its wings caught in the Southern Hemisphere Tasmanskom Sea in September 1965 |
| The longest step. Step ostrich may exceed 7 m, when the bird quickly runs. |
 The highest acceleration, portable living being. Klyuv krasnogolovogo dyatla (Melanerpes erythrocephalus), dolbyaschego tree bark, moving at a speed of 20.9 km / h, why bird brain when the head dropped back, is very negative acceleration (g = 10). Other Diatlov may face even greater gravity load |
| The largest consumption of food. Every day Kolibri (family Trochilidae) required amount of food (mainly nectar and tiny insects), equal to at least half of their body weight. Except, perhaps, zemleroek, the Kolibri, the highest level of metabolism. |
| The most bizarre diet. Straus, who lived in London Zoo, as it turned out, once swallowed an alarm clock, a cassette with the film, handkerchief, rope length of 91 cm, cycling union, three gloves, a hairbrush, pencil, a piece of gold chains, cufflinks, Belgian franc, four polupensovika and two farthing. |
 The longest post. Male Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) a few months to live without food for the vast Antarctic ice: it commits the transition from sea to the nesting sites, caring for a female, GREET egg during 62-67 days, awaiting the return of females and back in open sea, without producing food to 134 days. |
 The largest mining. Know that the largest animals killed and lost a bird, was 7-kilogram-howler monkey, which killed harpy (Harpia harpyja) in the Manu National Park (Peru) in 1990 Garpiya regarded as the strongest bird of prey, while her total weight of 9 kg. |
| The most acute vision. It is believed that under ideal conditions sapsan (Falco peregrinus) can see a dove at a distance of more than 8 km. |
 The largest nest. "Incubators" that build weedy chickens (Leipoa ocellata) from Australia, reached a height of 4.75 m and 10.6 m wide. Weight nests approximately 300 tons Gnezdo width of 2.9 meters and a depth of 6 meters was built lysyh pair of eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and, possibly, their successors, near St. Petersburg (Florida. USA). When inspection in 1963, the weight of the nest was estimated more than 2 tons |
| The smallest nests. Verbenovy Kolibri (Mellisuga minima) builds a nest of half a walnut shell. A deeper and narrower pchelovidnogo humming-bird's nest (M. helenae) is the size of naperstka. |
| The largest egg. Extinct giant bird epiornis (Aepyornis maximus) oviposit length of 33 cm, which contained 8.5 liters of liquid. This is the amount of seven ostrich eggs and more than 12000 eggs Kolibri. |
Ostrich egg is 15-20 cm long, 10-15 cm in diameter and a mass 1,0-1,78 kg. By volume, it equals 24 chicken eggs. The shell thickness of 1.5 mm, but it can withstand the weight of an adult. The largest egg was postponed in 1988, a hybrid of northern and southern ostrich farm of Kibbutz Haon (Israel). His weight was 2.3 kg. | | Most small egg. Two of the smallest eggs were from verbenovogo Kolibri: they have a length of less than 1 cm One weight 0365 g, the second - 0375 |
 The largest bird. The number of adult African krasnoklyuvyh tkachikov (Quelea quelea) is estimated at 1.5 billion annual destruction of at least 200 million birds have no impact on their numbers. |
| The most overbearing bird. Kea (Nestor notabilis) from New Zealand - the only bird, a component of community in which the birds' high ostrich "forcing the remaining work for them. |
 Most pahuchaya bird. Yuzhnoamerikansky hoatsin (Opisthocomus hoazin) smells like cow manure. Colombians call it pava hedionda ( "stinking pheasant). It is believed that the smell associated with the diet of birds, consisting of green foliage, and particularly the digestive system, where fermentation of food takes place in front of the intestine. |
