All people like to watch in the sky highly soaring birds. Perhaps it because what to representatives of the human race it is not allowed to feel joy of flight? But on what precisely to height the bird soars, to define quite difficult. In most cases flight takes place at the height about 150 m from the earth, but during seasonal migrations some individuals rise up to 3 thousand m. But also it is not a limit …
Ryuppel's signature stamp
Today the podium top among feathery pilots is occupied by Gyps rueppellii signature stamp – the very best highly flying bird of the planet. These birds, according to the statements of ornithologists, most often are the reason of collisions with the going planes. The world record on flight altitude of a signature stamp is equal 12150 meters and for the present is not beaten.
Signature stamps are the same eagles, only with the neoperenny head and a neck. They lodge in couples, avoiding communication with relatives, and gather only to divide a meal. Ryuppel's signature stamp in the east and the North of the African continent lives, for as the African vulture received other name.
Flights of these birds cause delight but as the birds flying at such height, cope with low temperatures, radiation of the sun and the discharged air, the science does authentically not know.
Mountain goose
To believe that a fat and slow natatorial mountain goose (Eulabeia indica) it can is impossible to rise by height in 10175 m! Nevertheless, it is the truth. This bird twisting nests at the height up to 5000 m in mountains of Central Asia is capable to fly over tops of the Himalayas in only 8 hours. Though they are not capable to overcome very long distances without interruption on rest. The mountain goose, as well as all other species of geese, belongs to fauna of northern latitudes. To warm regions they migrate only in the winter, gathering in big packs and being built in a wedge. Unlike family duck, at geese the representatives of various floors have identical plumage.
Lebed-klikun
In the north of Europe one more high-flight representative of natatorial - a swan-klikun (Cygnus cygnus) – a waterfowl, large up to 10 kg, lives. In the winter of 1967 in the sky of Ireland the radars marked the small pack of swans which was flying by at the height of 8230 meters. It is worth noticing that the ability of these birds to fly at the height more than 8 thousand meters was confirmed still repeatedly. Lebed-klikun differs from the relatives in a beak, yellow with a black tip, and the powerful, not deprived of harmony voice.
Wild duck
The most recognizable bird from family of duck Anas platyrhynchos, and on simple – a wild duck. But only units know that this waterfowl is also first-class flyer. When there attacks the season of annual migrations places of a wintering, the wild duck rises by height in 6900 m that sometimes led to collision with planes.