• EddoWagt
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    3 months ago

    Have you seen their legs though? They dont look sufficient at all, especially taller birds which stand in the water often have insanely thin legs

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      3 months ago

      Birds like egrets and herons rarely weigh more than a few pounds. Even the red-crowned crane, a five foot tall bird, caps out at about twenty pounds. An average nine-month-old human weighs that but is only a foot and a half tall. Flighted birds are crazy light.

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        3 months ago

        Wow, that is indeed crazy. I knew birds were light, but that’s still impressive