If you asked me a week ago to list the 15 biggest birds in the world, I’d have said ‘Big Bird’ and then gone blank. But here I am, one week later, armed with all the details of the largest birds in our beautiful natural world. Get your wings ready because we’re flying high today! From the largest bird of prey in the rainforest to Earth’s craziest creature, here are the 15 Biggest Birds in the World!
We had neighbors in the rural mountains of Colorado who raised Emus. The only sounds that their emus made were thumping sounds like a bass drum. The first time we heard them was one night before we knew that any lived close or that any living thing could make that noise. It was very scary to hear this deep quiet thumping. It’s a very unusual sound to hear at night where the normal nigh sounds were owls, coyotes and an occasional mountain lion in heat screaming. By the way I’d rather be woken from sleep by an emu than said mountain lion.
When I was a kid I went to a magnet school at the LA zoo to study animals, and we used to ditch class and party behind the aviary that held the zoo’s harpy eagles. Those things are so freaking awesome up close its hard to believe that they’re real, and not a museum exhibit of a prehistoric bird. They were like eagles bigger than Rottweilers with claws so big that they could palm a basketball. They were easily one of the most impressive animals that I’ve ever seen.
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