Flightless Birds

The penguin is the only bird that lives permanently in the Antarctic region. It is also flightless.There are four species of penguins which live at Antarctica: Adelie, Emperor, Chinstrap and Gentoo penguins.

One crow is usually bad luck or most likely death. A flock means someone spiritual is trying to contact you or you are being watched from the spiritual world.

Originally the takahe had no predators, but when People came to its habitat in New Zealand, they brought goats, which ate the vegetation and ruined the enviroment, and rats who ate the takahe's eggs. People tried to get rid of rats, which had become the takahe's main predator, by introducing weasels, but the weasels just ate more takahe as well as baby takahe. So to answer your question, rats, weasels, and man are the takahe's predators.

Many factors contribute to bird navigation during long distance migrations, including learning, instinct, their solar compass (perception of sun orientation and day length), landmarks, olfactory cues, and a curious ability still being researched called magnetoception (or magnetoreception) which enables them to detect the orientation of the earths magnetic field. The mechanism is not fully understood but some tests indicate that homing pigeons, for example, might exploit magnetite contained in small deposits around the beak. Another theory suggests that a complex protein called cryptochrome might affect bird vision by altering the sensitivity of retinal neurons such that, in effect, birds might be able to 'see' the earth's magnetic field.

The takahe's diet changes with the seasons. It is restricted to the high alpine country, so in the summer it refers on snow tussock shoots, mountain daisy, sedges, herbs and moths. In winter it feeds on fern rhizomes in the high forests.

A flightless New Zealand bird with a long beak is a Kiwi.

Takahe were presumed extinct until they had been rediscovered by Geoffrey Orbell in 1948. They used to inhabit both, North and South Island of New Zealand. Their numbers declined hugely through overhunting from Maori as well as European settlers and the introduction of predators such as rats and stoats. One other contributing factor is the introduction of red deer to New Zealand who compete for the Takahe's main food source, the Tussock grass.

Most commonly, this question is answered 'because the Maori hunted them to near extinction', but this is incorrect. The Takahe have been believed to become extinct by 1898, but Maori had already arrived in New Zealand in the 13th century. The Moa, another flightless bird hunted by Maori, became extinct around 1500 AD. Therefore I believe it is safe to say that Maori alone can't be made responsible for the overhunting of this beautiful bird. Europeans started to settle in New Zealand by the 1780s, with increasing numbers from the 1830s. With them arrived rats, stoats, deer and other pests which made life hard for the endemic flora and fauna.

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1. Other predators of blackbirds include Raccoons, snakes, crows, owls, hawks, and Red Foxes. Some parasites of Red-winged Blackbirds include blood-sucking flies, lice, and mites. When breeding season is over, Red-winged Blackbirds join enormous flocks, often mixed with Grackles, European Starlings, and Cowbirds.

the rhea has four toes not including its 5th toe on the side.

Dodo, elephant bird, moa.

Five species and two sub-species of Kiwi, the Kakapo, the Takahe, the Weka, The Auckland Island Teal, the Campbell Island Teal and six species of Penguin are all flightless birds of New Zealand.

Sources vary greatly regarding the lifespan of the takahe. The most common information seems to suggest that the takahe can live between 14 and 20 years, but that this is reduced to around five years in the wild.

In an ideal, predator-free world, kakapo would indeed have more than one habitat. This flightless parrot, unique to New Zealand, was once found across a range of habitats. Fossil evidence indicates that kakapo used to range from the far north of North Island to the southern tip of the South Island, and across a range of terrain and biomes from near sea-level to near the tops of mountains, and from native forests and shrubland to tussock grasslands. Preferred native forests were those dominated by podocarps (rimu, matai, kahikatea, totara), beeches, tawa, and rata.

Now, because the remaining kakapo have had to be moved to protected islands, their habitat is restricted to dense bush amid steep terrain.

Yes they do

I'm not sure if there is a bird that is that exact height (6 or 8 ft). However, the Great Blue Heron usually reaches 5 feet in height. Also according to Birding.com's Amazing Bird Facts (http://www.birding.com/birdrecords1.asp), here is some interesting information about tall birds: The Ostrich has reached maximum heights of 9 feet and weights of 345 pounds. The tallest extinct bird was the Giant Moa and lived in New Zealand. This bird reached up to 12 feet. Hope this helps.

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Although rheas are birds, they are one of the very few birds that can't actually fly at all. They are members of a group of birds called ratites. Other ratites include the Southern cassowary of Australia and New Guinea, the kiwi from New Zealand, the ostrich from Africa and the emu from Australia.

Ratites have wings but the bones in their chests do not have the capacity for flight muscles, which is what a bird needs to fly. Although the rhea does not actually weigh as much as it appears (20-27kg), its wings are too small by comparison to lift it.

no a weka can't fly it's kind of like the takahe the weka and takahe can't fly because it lost it's ability to fly actually yes it can

There is no specific name for this physiological feature of the kakapo. It is simply called an inflatable thoracic air sac.