Top 10 Flightless Bird Species in The World

There are only few species of Flightless birds in the world,most of them are known as ratites and that includes ostrich, emu, cassowary and rhea. These birds can’t fly but have short wings and they can run well on ground and swim in the ocean, such as Ostrich,Kiwi,Penguin,steamer duck and Weka.

Ostrich is the largest species of flightless bird with powerful long legs. The ostrich bird can run fastest land speed of any other bird and also lays largest eggs of any living bird



ostrich, (Struthio camelus), large flightless bird found only in open country in Africa. The largest living bird, an adult male may be 2.75 metres (about 9 feet) tall—almost half of its height is neck—and weigh more than 150 kg (330 pounds); the female is somewhat smaller. The ostrich’s egg, averaging about 150 mm (6 inches) in length by 125 mm (5 inches) in diameter and about 1.35 kg (3 pounds), is also the world’s largest. The male is mostly black but has white plumes in the wings and tail; females are mostly brown. The head and most of the neck, reddish to bluish in colour, is lightly downed; the legs, including the powerful thighs, are bare. The head is small, the bill short and rather wide; the big brown eyes have thick black lashes.