The largest bird of peace

• The largest bird of the world

On our planet, home to thousands of birds - all of them are interesting and surprising. Today we look at 15 of the largest birds. The selection criteria serves as weight and height and wingspan.

Harpy (Harpia harpyja) - their body length varies from 90 to 102 cm, and the wingspan of 2 meters. A female, average weight reaches 8 kg, usually larger male whose weight average does not exceed 6, 5-7 kg.

Steller (Pacific) Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) wingspan -. More than two meters during growth up to 110 cm In this case the body weight does not exceed 10 kg.

Japanese crane or crane Ussurian or Manchurian crane (Grus japonensis) - crane height is 150-160 cm, weight 8-10 kg, wingspan - 1, 5-2, 5 m

Common bustard (Otis tarda) - 21 kg. Other members of the bustard family is also quite large - from 15 to 20 kilograms

Domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) - 18-20 kg

Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) - 20-23 kg. Incidentally wingspan swan - is the fourth largest in the world - 2, 5 meters

Black neck (Aegypius monachus) - with the weight 7-12 kg, the scope of its wings - 2 5 - 3 meters

The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) - body length - about 115-135 cm and a wingspan of about 275 to 320 cm and is in third place.

Royal albatrosses, although they have a low weight (about 11 kg) are among the record for the wingspan - 3, 7 meters.

White pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) - and weighs about 15 kg scale its wings 3, 8 m.

rhea (Rhea americana) - 40 kg

Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) - 45-50 kg. Males can reach growth in 122 cm

Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) - 50-60 kg

southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) - 85 kg, northern cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus) - 58 kg

African ostrich (Struthio camelus), the heaviest bird of the Earth - a weight of about 150-160 kg