Can birds fly over Mount Everest?

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asked Dec 5, 2020 in Other- Pets by jarrybarbeverest (1,390 points)
Can birds fly over Mount Everest?

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answered Dec 5, 2020 by Grahlu (51,270 points)
Some types of birds can and do fly over Mount Everest.

Not all birds are capable of flying over Mount Everest because it's too high of an altitude but some mountain climbers and moutaineers have reported seeing some birds flying over Mount Everest.

The birds that can fly over Mount Everest are birds such as the bar-headed goose.

My friend saw a bar headed goose fly over Mount Everest a few years ago when he visited Mount Everest.

It's rare to see birds fly over Mount Everest but it does happen.

Most birds though fly below the altitude of Mount Everest so it's a rare sight to see birds flying over Mount Everest although you might see some birds flying near or around Mount Everest though.
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answered Jun 14, 2022 by Gregorysharp (18,140 points)
The bird that can fly over Mount Everest is the bar headed goose.

The bar-headed goose is a goose that breeds in Central Asia in colonies of thousands near mountain lakes and winters in South Asia, as far south as peninsular India.

It lays three to eight eggs at a time in a ground nest.

It is known for the extreme altitudes it reaches when migrating across the Himalayas.

The bird that has 11 feet wings is the Antipodean Albatross.

The Antipodean albatross is a large seabird in the albatross family.

Antipodean albatrosses are smaller than wandering albatrosses, and breed in predominantly brown plumage, but are otherwise difficult to distinguish from young wanderers.

The heaviest bird is the ostrich which is also the heaviest bird that cannot fly.

Ostriches are large flightless birds of the genus Struthio in the order Struthioniformes. Struthio is part of the infra-class Palaeognathae, a diverse group of flightless birds also known as ratites that includes the emus, rheas, and kiwis.

The great bustard is the heaviest flying bird.

The largest extinct bird is the Vorombe titan.

Vorombe is one of three genera of elephant birds, an extinct family of large ratite birds endemic to Madagascar.

Originally considered to be large Aepyornis specimens, it is now thought Vorombe are the largest and heaviest birds known to have existed.

There's no bird that never lands although some birds can stay in the air and fly for long periods of time.

All birds eventually have to stop flying and no bird can stay in the air it's whole life.

Although there is a bird that can stay in the air and fly for 10 months straight which is the common swift bird.

The common swift is a medium-sized bird, superficially similar to the barn swallow or house martin but somewhat larger, though not stemming from those passerine species, being in the order Apodiformes.

The resemblances between the groups are due to convergent evolution, reflecting similar contextual development.

Birds do fart but rarely.

Birds can burp or fart but there is little reason to do so.

Birds have a lower build-up of gases in their guts due to less gas-producing gut bacteria compared to humans.

Scientists have not documented birds expelling gas, but believe they can do so.

However, some talking birds can imitate the sound of humans burping.

The heaviest bird that can fly is the great bustard bird.

The great bustard is a bird in the bustard family, the only member of the genus Otis.

It breeds in open grasslands and farmland from northern Morocco, South and Central Europe, to temperate Central and East Asia.

European populations are mainly resident, but Asian populations migrate farther south in winter.

The bird that can pick up a human or a small human at least such as a toddler is the harpy eagle.

The harpy eagle can pick up a small human such as a toddler weighing at most 20 lbs.

The biggest animal that an eagle can carry is an animal weighing at most 8 lbs and if it did lift that 8 lb animal up it cannot carry that animal far without dropping it as around 4 lbs is the most an eagle can carry for too long of a distance.

Eagles can only carry up to about 4 lbs.

Anything over 4 lbs is considered too heavy for an eagle to carry.

The average eagle can pick up and carry in flight a weight of between 3 to 4 lbs which is not all that much.

So while an eagle might be able to lift a small dog such as a Chihuahua or a cat the eagle would not be able to lift and carry in flight a larger dog or other larger animal.

Eagles can only carry a small percentage of their weight so an eagle would not be able to lift up or carry a goat or anything else that is large and heavier than it is.

Eagles do however feed on dead goats, dead sheep and other dead livestock but they do not kill the livestock nor can the eagle carry them away.

An Eagle could likely carry a chicken away and kill them but no large animals.

If you kill a bald eagle and it's not a justifiable killing of the bald eagle it can get you into some serious trouble.

If it's your first offense at killing a bald eagle you'll usually get a fine of $5,000.00 and possibly 1 or 2 years in prison.

Then if you get caught a second time killing another bald eagle then the fine goes up to $10,000.00 and another 2 years in prison and for the third conviction of killing a bald eagle you can get an even higher cost fine.

The fine for the third offense of killing a bald eagle is around $250,000.00 and possibly another 2 years of imprisonment.

So never kill a bald eagle unless it's justifiable as in harming you or someone which they rarely do.

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