{"id":95746,"date":"2021-09-29T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windycityparrot.com\/?p=95746"},"modified":"2021-09-29T15:43:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:43:21","slug":"can-small-birds-fly-higher-than-bigger-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/?p=95746","title":{"rendered":"Can Small Birds Fly Higher Than Bigger Birds?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Quora<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Miniature new transmitters recently revealed that the 4-ounce Arctic Tern (113-gram) bird follows zigzagging routes between Greenland and Antarctica each year.<\/span><\/p>\n

A fat cockatiel weighs a little more than 100 grams.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In the process, the arctic tern racks up as much as 56,000 frequent flier miles – edging out its archrival, the sooty shearwater, by roughly 12,000 miles.<\/span><\/p>\n

How well would a parrot be able to handle elevations higher than 12,000 feet?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Altitude is not a migrating bird’s friend as it requires a huge amount of calories to gain.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s also the problem of extracting oxygen from the air because air at very high altitudes becomes problematic.<\/span><\/p>\n

How well would a parrot be able to handle elevations higher than 12,000 feet?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Mother nature feels that yes, bigger birds should be the ones to fly at higher altitudes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let\u2019s look at the R\u00fcppell’s vulture, a very large bird, that has been reported by commercial airline pilots seen at altitudes of Over 37,000 Feet (almost 7 miles above the earth).<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Ruppelsvulture-1\"<\/p>\n

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The temperature at that altitude is typically about -56.5\u00b0C (-69.7\u00b0F) yet there they are, with bald heads flapping their wings 7 miles above the earth – it’s a DNA thing<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Some Bird’s Maximum Heights<\/strong><\/span>
\nR\u00fcppell’s vulture\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a011,300 metres (37,100 feet).<\/span>
\nCommon crane\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a010,000 metres (33,000 feet)<\/span>
\nBar-headed goose\u00a0 \u00a0 8,800 metres (29,000 feet)<\/span>
\nWhooper swan\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 8,200 metres (27,000 feet)<\/span>
\nAlpine chough\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a08,000 metres (26,500 feet)<\/span>
\nBearded vulture\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 7,300 metres (24,000 feet).<\/span>
\nAndean condor\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a06,500 metres (21,300 feet)<\/span>
\nMallard\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 6,400 metres (21,000 feet)<\/span>
\nBar-tailed godwit\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a06,000 metres (20,000 feet)<\/span>
\nWhite stork\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 4,800 metres (16,000 feet).<\/span><\/p>\n

Original Quora thread<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Quora Miniature new transmitters recently revealed that the 4-ounce Arctic Tern (113-gram) bird follows zigzagging routes between Greenland and Antarctica each year. A fat cockatiel weighs a little more than 100 grams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[196,192,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-behavior","category-flight","category-wild-bird-wildlife"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hyacinth-macaw-shown-in-flight-over-forest-from-above-blog-8.jpg?resize=600%2C445&ssl=1",600,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hyacinth-macaw-shown-in-flight-over-forest-from-above-blog-8.jpg?resize=463%2C348&ssl=1",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hyacinth-macaw-shown-in-flight-over-forest-from-above-blog-8.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1",300,300,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hyacinth-macaw-shown-in-flight-over-forest-from-above-blog-8.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1",600,600,false]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hyacinth-macaw-shown-in-flight-over-forest-from-above-blog-8.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phcfkq-oUi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}