I can't name 40, but I can give the names of a few...
Penguin
Emu
Ostrich
Cassowary
Kiwi
Rhea
Takahe- a flightless bird thought to be extinct but found again in New Zealand
Kakapo- a rare ground parrot from New Zealand. This bird lives in a borrow. I can make a loud booming sound which can be heard from 5 km away!
Ratites
Ostrich
Emu
Cassowaries
Kiwis
Rheas
Podicipediformes (Grebes)
Junin Flightless Grebe
Titicaca Flightless Grebe
Pelicaniformes (Pelicans, Cormorants, et al)
Flightless Cormorant
Sphenisciformes (Penguins)
Penguins
Anseriformes (Waterfowl)
Magellanic Flightless Steamer Duck
Falkland Flightless Steamer Duck
White-headed Flightless Steamer Duck
Auckland Island Teal
Campbell Island Teal
Gruiformes (Cranes, Rails)
Woodford's Rail (probably flightless)
Weka
New Caledonian Rail
Lord Howe Woodhen
Calayan Rail
New Britain Rail
Guam Rail
Roviana Rail ("flightless, or nearly so" [Taylor 1998])
Snoring Rail
Inaccessible Island Rail
Henderson Island Crake
Invisible Rail
New Guinea Flightless Rail
Takahe
Samoan Wood Rail
Makira Wood Rail
Gough Island Moorhen
Kagu
Tasmanian Native-hen
Psittaciformes (Parrots)
Kakapo
Broad-billed Parrot (extinct)
Columbiformes (Pigeons, Doves)
Dodo (extinct)
Rodrigues Solitaire (extinct)
Viti Levu Giant Pigeon (extinct)
Caprimulgiformes (Nightjars)
New Zealand Owlet-nightjar (extinct)
Passeriformes (Perching Birds)
Stephens Island Wren (extinct)
Galliformes (Wildfowl)
Silkie
Domestic turkey
Penguins are aquatic,flightless birds.
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Penguins are short-legged flightless aquatic birds. There are some 17 species in the penguin family.
Yes, for example: In fact, a few species of birds are flightless.
The big flightless birds in Africa are the Common Ostrich (Struthio camelus), and the Somali Ostrich (Struthio camelus molybdophanes). The Somali Ostrich is recognized as a distinct species.
The most well-known flightless bird in New Zealand is the Kiwi. However, New Zealand is also known for another unusual flightless bird, the kakapo, which is the world's only flightless parrot.
Since most wild birds can fly, it would be easiest to answer how many wild birds don't fly.Ostrich, Emu, Cassowary, Rhea, Kiwi, Penguins and the Inaccessible Island Rail. Approximately 40 species. There are approximately 10,000 species of birds...so minus 40 species of flightless birds leaves 9,960 species that fly (or, if flightless due to domestication, have living wild ancestors that can still fly).
No. There is no species of kiwi which can fly. Kiwi are flightless birds.
Australia does not have ten flightless birds. Only the emu and the southern cassowary are truly flightless.
Rheas are flightless birds native to South America. There are two species. Neither is endangered.
Penguins (various species) are semi-aquatic, flightless birds, who eat fish - making them carnivores.
no they do not have hollow bones. this is because they are flightless and god just made them that way♥ ♥