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The altitude record is held by a Rüppell's griffon Gyps rueppelli, a vulture with a 10-foot wingspan. On November 29, 1975 one was sucked into a jet engine 37,900 feet above the Ivory Coast in West Africa. The plane was damaged but landed safely. The bird that flies highestregularly is the bar-headed goose Anser indicus, which travels directly over the Himalayas en route between its nesting grounds in Tibet and winter quarters in India. They are sometimes seen flying well above the peak of Mt. Everest at 29,035 ft. This journey was one of the featured stories on the Discovery channels documentory Planet Earth. The journey over the mountains is a difficult one and wind conditions can force the birds backwards where they will rest and try again the next day. Birds have some natural advantages for getting oxygen at high altitudes, in particular an arrangement of air sacs that allows them to circulate inhaled air twice through the lungs with each breath--much more efficient than the in-and-out system used by mammals. Bar-headed geese have special adaptations that make them even better at high-flying than other birds. They have a special type of hemoglobin that absorbs oxygen very quickly at high altitudes, and their capillaries penetrate especially deep within their muscles to transfer oxygen to the muscle fibers.
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∙ 9y agothe bar-headed goose is believed to be the highest flying bird
The Bar-headed goose is one of the highest flying birds, which can reach 20 thousand feet in altitude. A Ruppellâ??s vulture can also fly at the same altitude.
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∙ 15y agoThe domestic chicken may be. Outside that, the Red-billed Quelea (Quelea quelea) of Africa (southern Saharan area), which has numbers estimated at some 1.5 billion, may be it. A link is provided.
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∙ 13y agovulture is said to fly up to Mount Everest (which is the highest mountain in the world) with out flapping their wings they can fly up to nearly 11 kilometers in altitude.
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∙ 14y agoEmperor Penguin with around 100 feathers covering 6 square centimeters.
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∙ 15y agoQuelea. 1.5 billion
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∙ 13y agoIt is some kind of Eagle.
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∙ 15y agoThe chicken.
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Obviously the ren the ren the king of all birds, on st.stephens day....something something something..... Its a kids story, all the birds had a competition to see who could fly the highest and the eagle was pwning all the birds and the ren popped up from the eagles wing and he was like" f**k you i'm the highest flying!" Fact
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What was the highest flying bird?
Obviously the ren the ren the king of all birds, on st.stephens day....something something something..... Its a kids story, all the birds had a competition to see who could fly the highest and the eagle was pwning all the birds and the ren popped up from the eagles wing and he was like" f**k you i'm the highest flying!" Fact
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