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The Maribou also feeds on live food especially during the mating season during which their food is primarily frogs and insects. The Maribou Stork is also a scavenger and that explains the reason behind the bald head as it is easier to clean and feeding of a big carcass. The Marabou stork is found in the lands south of the Saharan desert and is also known as the undertaker bird because of the way it looks when viewed from behind. The Marabou stork is the largest member of the stork family with an average wingspan of 3.2 meters. Another member of the vulture family, and a mountain dweller like the Andean Condor, the Himalyan vulture also makes the list with a wingspan of 3.1 meters. They are scavengers and feed mainly on dead meat of huge animals like boar or llamas. They are often known to breed and lay eggs on inaccessible rocks at an average height of 5000 meters from sea level. The bird as the name suggests lives in the Andes where the birds soar at extreme heights. This makes the Andean condor the largest flight bird in land. While it may have smaller wingspan than the albatross or the pelican, the condor still is considered the biggest due to its weight with the males in the species reaching upto 15 kilograms. Widely considered by many to be the largest of all birds, the Andean condor has a wingspan of 3.3m. This makes the pelican a very successful aquatic bird inspite of being heavy. They mainly feed on fish and their webbed feet helps then propelling and take off from water. The pelican is highly social bird often forming huge flocks. The great white pelican has a wide habitat that ranges from Africa to Eurasia and their adaptation to varied habitats has helped them in their survival better with them being in the least concerned status of the IUCN Red list of endangered species. We might have not noticed this considering our attention would have been on their long beak with the leather-like pouch underneath the beak. The great white pelican is known to have a wingspan of 3.5 meters.
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The great Wandering pelican is next in our list and we are quite familiar with the bird through movies and funny youtube videos of them trying to attack people. Even they would make it to this list in the top but we will not discuss them in detail and move on to other birds. They are closely related to Tristan and Antipodean albatross, two other species of which the wandering albatross were initially thought to be part of. The albatross breeds every other year often forming huge colonies in remote islands in South Georgia islands and New Zealand. The albatross covers great distance with some individuals known to circumvigate the southern sea thrice in a year which is covering approximately covering more than 75000 miles in 1 year. The wandering albatross spends much of its life in flight landing only to just breed and feed. This huge wingspan of the wandering albatross makes it an amazing flight sea bird. Compare that with the cute but smallest bird in the world, the bee hummingbird, which measures just 2.2 inches in length. Thats more than 12ft in length and makes the wandering albatross the bird with the longest wingspan in the world. The wandering albatross is the largest of all the greater albatrosses and has a wingspan of more than 3 meters with the largest ones around 3.7 mts. While some strike fear by their looks there are some beautiful birds in the list too Wandering Albatross Here is a list of the top 6 six birds with the longest span.
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There is no raven of that size but there are other birds that are. Imagine if the same bird were to have to twice the length as part of their span. An average raven weighs only slightly more than a kilogram and with a wingspan of 1.4m. For us human beings even the common raven seems quite big at times especially when they glide wuite close to people.