Flightless birds are birds that, through evolution, lost the ability to fly. There are over 60 extant species, including the well-known ratites (ostriches...

"Flightless Bird, American Mouth" is a song recorded by the American singer-songwriter Iron & Wine. The song was released on December 11, 2008 through...

Kiwi (/ˈkiːwiː/ KEE-wee) are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the order Apterygiformes. The five extant species fall into the family Apterygidae...

South American ostrich, are moderately-sized South American ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) of the order Rheiformes. They...

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean...

The flightless cormorant (Nannopterum harrisi), also known as the Galapagos cormorant, is a cormorant endemic to the Galapagos Islands, and an example...

Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar. They are thought to...

Evolution of Flightlessness in Birds". The American Naturalist. 144 (4): 628–642. doi:10.1086/285697. JSTOR 2462941. S2CID 86511951. "Flightlessness - an overview...

large to enormous prehistoric birds native to Australia during the Oligocene to Pliocene epochs. The species were flightless, possessing greatly reduced...

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the...

Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct family of large carnivorous, mostly flightless birds that were among the largest apex predators...

of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus (a large flightless bird indigenous to Australia) said to be destroying crops in the Campion...

A ratite (/ˈrætaɪt/) is any of a group of mostly flightless birds within the infraclass Palaeognathae. They are mostly large, long-necked, and long-legged...

Bird wings are a paired forelimb in birds. The wings give the birds the ability to fly, creating lift. Terrestrial flightless birds have reduced wings...

which a bird's wing muscles attach, thereby providing adequate leverage for flight. Not all birds have keels; in particular, some flightless birds lack a...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kiwi most commonly refers to: Kiwi (bird), a flightless bird native to New Zealand Kiwi (nickname), an informal name for New...

allows for these particular birds to have denser bones and heavier bodies. Flightless birds comprise less than 2% of all living bird species.[citation needed]...

Indonesian: kasuari) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes. They are classified as ratites: flightless birds without a keel on...

Archipelago in the isolated south Atlantic, it is the smallest extant flightless bird in the world. The species was formally described by physician Percy...

television series such as Grey's Anatomy, The L Word and House M.D. "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" was used in the film Twilight. The song was specifically...

Dromaius novaehollandiae) is a species of flightless bird endemic to Australia, where it is the largest native bird. It is the only extant member of the genus...

Newton's thunder bird or mihirung paringmal (meaning "giant bird" in Tjapwuring), is an extinct species of large, flightless bird that lived in Australia...

islands. Furthermore, these birds often prefer to run rather than fly, especially in dense habitat. Some are also flightless at some time during their moult...

Conservation: Human impact).[citation needed] Kākāpō are the only flightless bird that has a lek breeding system. Males loosely gather in an arena and...

mechanism by which various birds became flightless and came to look similar to one another. Hope (2002) reviewed all known bird fossils from the Mesozoic...

Ostriches are large flightless birds. They are the heaviest and largest living birds, with adult common ostriches weighing anywhere between 63.5 and 145...

Zealand. Like other kiwi, this bird is flightless. This bird has red-brown feathers that resemble fur. It is flightless and has small wings and no tail...

large-sized flightless birds. The loss of its primary prey caused the Haast's eagle to become extinct at about the same time. Some believe that these birds are...

been calling Big Bird a turkey, more as an insult rather than a reference to his species. Big Bird is always described as being flightless. During the first...

the endemic Inaccessible Island rail, the world's smallest extant flightless bird. Inaccessible Island was discovered in January 1656 during a voyage...