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List of birds by flight heights

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This is a list of birds by flight height.

Birds by flight height

Bird Image Species Family Maximum height Details
Rüppell's vulture 100px Gyps rueppellii Accipitridae 11,300 metres (37,000 feet)[1] Vultures use their excellent eyesight to scan the landscape below from a relatively static aerial position. Instead of flying over a larger distance, they use elevation to expand their field of vision.[2] A bird strike was recorded at this height in 1973.[3]
Common crane 100px Grus grus Gruidae 10,000 metres (33,000 feet) This height was recorded above the Himalayas.[1] This great height allows them to avoid eagles in mountain passes.[1]
Bar-headed goose 100px Anser indicus Anatidae 8,800 metres (29,000 feet)[1][4][5] They also fly over the peaks of the Himalayas on their migratory path.[4]
Whooper swan 100px Cygnus cygnus Anatidae 8,200 metres (27,000 feet) This height was attained by a flock of whooper swans flying over Northern Ireland, and recorded by radar.[1][5]
Alpine chough 100px Pyrrhocorax graculus Corvidae 8,000 metres (26,500 feet) This height was recorded on Mount Everest.[5]
Bearded vulture 100px Gypaetus barbatus Accipitridae 7,300 metres (24,000 feet).[3]
Black kite 100px Milvus migrans Accipitridae 6,500 (21,300 feet)[6] The black kite can reach an altitude of around 37,000 feet especially during their migratory flight to and from West Africa in the second week of September and the last week of May annually.[citation needed]
Andean condor 100px Vultur gryphus Cathartidae 6,500 metres (21,300 feet)[7]
Mallard 100px Anas platyrhynchos Anatidae 6,400 metres (21,000 feet) This height was recorded over Nevada;[3][4][5] This record occurred when a Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop airliner operating a Western Airlines flight suffered a bird strike at cruising altitude.[8][3]
Bar-tailed godwit 100px Limosa lapponica Scolopacidae 6,000 metres (20,000 feet)[5][9] It can reach this height while migrating.
White stork 100px Ciconia ciconia Ciconiidae 4,800 metres (16,000 feet).[9] It can reach this height while migrating.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Carwardine, Mark (2008). "Birds Highest Flying Birds". Natural History Museum Animal Records. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. p. 124. ISBN 978-1402756238. https://books.google.com/books?id=T3FEKopUFkUC&pg=PA124. 
  2. ↑ "The Ruppells Griffon Vulture; The Highest Recorded Flying Bird". September 26, 2012. https://blogs.bu.edu/bioaerial2012/2012/09/26/the-ruppells-griffon-vulture-the-highest-recorded-flying-bird/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Laybourne, Roxie C. (December 1974). "Collision between a Vulture and an Aircraft at an Altitude of 37,000 Feet". The Wilson Bulletin (Wilson Ornithological Society) 86 (4): 461–462. ISSN 0043-5643. OCLC 46381512. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Lincoln, Frederick C. (1999). Migration of Birds. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. p. 30. ISBN 0160617014. https://books.google.com/books?id=Gsp07mQKBuIC&pg=PA30. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Whiteman, Lily (2000). "The High Life". Audubon 102 (6): 104–108. http://archive.audubonmagazine.org/birds/birds0011.html. Retrieved 25 February 2014. 
  6. ↑ Literák, Ivan; Škrábal, Jan; Karyakin, Igor V.; Andreyenkova, Natalya G.; Vazhov, Sergey V. (2 April 2022). "Black Kites on a flyway between Western Siberia and the Indian Subcontinent". Scientific Reports 12 (1): 5581. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-09246-1. PMID 35368027. Bibcode: 2022NatSR..12.5581L. 
  7. ↑ Gargiulo, Carolina Natalia (2012). Distribución y situación actual del cóndor andino (Vultur gryphus) en las sierras centrales de Argentina (PDF) (Thesis). Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  8. ↑ "Altitude record for Mallard, The Wilson Bulletin". https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/wilson_bulletin/vol75/iss1/20/. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Elphick, Jonathan (2007). The Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds. Struik. p. 23. ISBN 978-1770074996. https://books.google.com/books?id=j91I9I4pq20C&pg=PT28. 



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