A few nice extinct birds images I found:
Elephant Birds
Image by seriykotik1970
"The elephant birds, which were giant ratites native to Madagascar, have been extinct since at least the 16th century. Aepyornis was the world’s largest bird, believed to have been over three meters (10 feet) tall and weighing close to half a tonne ."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aepyornis
H.G. Wells wrote a short story about a man who managed to hatch one of the eggs of this bird- and the chaos that resulted:
Aepyornis Island- story x in this collection:
www.gutenberg.org/files/12750/12750-8.txt
n348_w1150
Image by BioDivLibrary
Extinct birds
London :Hutchinson,1907.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38665779
Tags:Birds, Elephant
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