Flightless Bird

Flightless Bird :-

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• These bird show
• discontinuous distribution ,
• They are well developed powerful  legs , small heads rudimentary eyes & wings. Oil glands , keel, pygostyle & syrinx are absent. Bones of legs are solid male has a large penis.

2.) African ostrich is the largest living bird. Height 2.5 meters , weight about 150 kg. they are polygamous as one male attach attach several female

3.) Contrary to popular believe , an ostrich doesn’t hide its head in sand when in danger.

4.) Egg os ostrich weights nearly 1.5 kg & require about 15 minute to boil it. Its is the largest egg among the animal

5.) the male ostrich incubates the eggs

6.) Ostrich are easily domesticated

7.) Rhea inhabits the planes are pampas of south America , there head & neck are feathered , not naked as in african ostrich

8.) Tinamus is an endemic genus of flightless bird found in “Bird continents ” located in south America

9.) Kiwi is the living flightless bird

10.) The nostrils of kiwi are located near the apex of the beak

11.) Kiwi are Nocturnal & borrowing in habit, they posses a good sense of unlike other bird

12.) The proportional to the size of the body , the kiwi largest animal egg to any known animal

13.) Oil glands are present in (Absent in all flightless bird)