Elephant Bird Egg

Some cool flightless birds images:

Elephant Bird Egg


Image by Leeds Museums and Galleries
Aepyornis maximus.

This egg was laid by an Elephant Bird; a huge, flightless bird from Madagascar which is now extinct.

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This photograph was taken by Sara Porter for Leeds Museums and Galleries for the 2013 exhibition Natural Beauty and is licensed under Creative Commons BY NC SA

Terror Bird


Image by edenpictures
Diatryma, a carnivorous, flightless bird that was one of the top predators in the post-dinosaur era.

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