Photo by Lukja (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Tallest Flying Bird in Central and South America<\/h2>\n
As I previously mentioned, the Jabiru is the tallest flying bird throughout its range. Just how tall are they? Well, the large males can easily reach a height of 1.53 metres (5 feet), so basically they are about the size of my father (sorry, dad… I couldn’t resist :)). As a result of this astonishing height (remember…they are a bird), a healthy adult Jabiru does not have any known natural predators. This is pretty impressive for an animal living in Central and South America as there are no shortage of predators in this area. It may be this lack of hungry predators that allows the Jabiru to have an average life-span of 36 years in the wild. Again, this is quite a feat for a bird living in a harsh environment….and they apparently didn’t even need modern medicine to help them live this long. Way to go Jabiru!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It has been a little while since we talked about an interesting bird, so I thought we could change that by studying the Jabiru, which is a member of the stork family that can typically be found in Central and South America. In fact, this particular bird is the tallest flying bird found within this distribution range…don’t worry, we will learn all about their height very soon. Although the word, “Jabiru” may seem odd to some folks, it has a very appropriate meaning in the Tupi-Guarani language – “Swollen Neck”. So, it is probably obvious why they received this common <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024],"tags":[348,381,1137,3132,3135,3133,4025,1042,3134],"yoast_head":"\n
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