5 Birds That Are The Largest Members Of Their Families

You don't have to be an animal expert to know that the largest land animals on this planet are the African elephants and the largest animal on this planet is the blue whale. These animals quite rightly get a lot of attention but there are some other giants that deserve some attention too. Some animals are not giants in the conventional sense but are giants of their own world. In this video i will be going through just a few birds that are the largest birds in their family as i will be going through 5 birds that are the largest of their kind.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:50 Storks
3:06 Kingfishers
5:14 Nightjars
6:58 Loons
8:26 Woodpeckers
Bird sizes:
Marabou stork weight: 9KG
Marabou stork height: 1.5M
Marabou stork wingspan: rummors 4M but 3.2M is the maximum verfifed wingspan
Laughing kookaburra weight: 470G
Laughing kookaburra length: 48CM
Laughing kookaburra wingspan: 70CM
Nacunda nighthawk weight: 190G
Nacunda nighthawk length: 35CM
Nacunda nighthawk wingspan: ???
Great eared nightjar wingspan: 70CM
Yellow-billed loon weight: 6.5KG
Yellow-billed loon length: 1M
Yellow-billed loon wingspan: 1.6M
Imperial woodpecker weight: 550G
Imperial woodpecker length: 60CM
Imperial woodpecker Wingspan: 76CM
Attributions
Kingfisher images:
Bernard DUPONT
www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
patrickkavanagh
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(CC BY 2.0)
Martha de Jong-Lantink
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(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Frank Vassen
www.flickr.com/photos/4224496...
(CC BY 2.0)
Sergey Yeliseev
www.flickr.com/photos/yeliseev/
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Aardwolf6886
www.flickr.com/photos/1327344...
(CC BY-ND 2.0)
Allan Hopkins
www.flickr.com/photos/hoppy1951/
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Joseph Gage
www.flickr.com/photos/1819206...
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
Greg Miles
www.flickr.com/photos/gregbm/
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
budak
www.flickr.com/photos/budak/
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Jason Thompson
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(CC BY 2.0)
stirwise
www.flickr.com/photos/stirwise/
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Diana Padrón
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(CC BY-NC 2.0)
H. Zell
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(CC BY-SA 3.0)
Ed Dunens
www.flickr.com/photos/blachswan/
(CC BY 2.0)
JJ Harrison
www.jjharrison.com.au/
(CC BY-SA 3.0)
Stork images:
Skip Russell
www.flickr.com/photos/skipr/
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Ekaterina Chernetsova (Papchinskaya)
www.flickr.com/photos/katechka/
(CC BY 2.0)
Nik Borrow
www.flickr.com/photos/nikborrow/
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
flowcomm
www.flickr.com/photos/flowcomm/
(CC BY 2.0)
Charles J. Sharp
www.sharpphotography.co.uk/
(CC BY-SA 4.0)
Bernard DUPONT
www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
Nightjar footage:
Robert Barnes
vimeo.com/user21669494
CC BY-NC-ND
Love Light & Nature
/ @lovelightnature
Gonzalo Mucientes
/ @gonzalomucientes
Minutos de Fauna
/ @jfreboto01
Alain Fossé
/ @alainfosse
Nightjar images:
Jason Thompson
www.flickr.com/photos/7949285...
(CC BY 2.0)
Robin Gwen Agarwal (ANudibranchMom on iNaturalist)
www.flickr.com/photos/3031443...
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith
www.flickr.com/photos/slobirdr/
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
Andreas Trepte
photo-natur.de/
(CC BY-SA 4.0)
Andreas Trepte
photo-natur.de/
(CC BY-SA 4.0)
Loon footage:
Watervogelbond
vimeo.com/user5163765
CC BY-NC-SA
Peter Bloch
vimeo.com/peterbloch
CC BY-NC-ND
Shetland Wildlife
vimeo.com/shetlandwildlife
CC BY-NC-ND
Alaska Extreme
/ @alaskaextreme
Loon images:
Mick Thompson
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(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Aki Mykkänen
www.flickr.com/photos/mygii/
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Seney Natural History Association
www.flickr.com/photos/seneynwr/
Lorie Shaull
www.flickr.com/photos/number7...
(CC BY 2.0)
Richard Crossley
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(CC BY-SA 3.0)
Duck image:
Matthew Paulson
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(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images.
Creative commons licences: creativecommons.org/licenses/
Thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed :)

[@AlmostEthical]

Kookaburras are beautiful birds. I love hearing their morning calls. I know a few people who have kookas visit their balcony. Like magpies, once the get to know you they enjoy being hand fed. Funny story. I was camping and, in the morning, all the campers would go to an area with BBQs scattered around. A father was just about to place a sausage on his kid's plate when a kookaburra swooped down and stole it off the kid's fork. It then started slamming the sausage against the ground, like it was killing a snake. Meanwhile the kid was bawling and his father was trying not to laugh. It was like watching a comedy.

[@Accentor100]

Please do a part two for the largest birds. Let's include the largest bird of prey as that's always somewhat controversial. Largest gull species the Great black-backed Gull. Largest waterfowl species, largest galliforme (game bird), largest (true) finch, largest corvid.

[@TsukiCove]

I'm more than happy to :)

[@Accentor100]

@@touremuhammad5983 Everyone? Maybe bird people do but I wouldn't assume everyone. A lot of people don't even know ravens are passerines (songbirds).

[@tikimillie]

@@TsukiCoveprehistoric/extinct birds too

[@haroldalan7080]

​@@tikimillieYep like the two legged extinct Terror birds that shred the same territory with Large Sabertooth cats in the Ice age era❄️🧊.

[@TroyTheCatFish]

I agree ☝️

[@juankruger2598]

I LOVE hearing Nightjars and the occasional hoot from an Owl at night. The Nightjars especially, as they keep going; you hear them a lot more 🖤🌃🌌🖤 I'm in South Africa

[@TsukiCove]

I can't hear any nightjars but there is the occasional owl that I can hear very close on some nights

[@sohopedeco]

Who'd ever thought storks not only bring you onto this world, but also take you away? 🤔

[@ejscorp]

Yeah they come back to eat your corpse 😅

[@joshuaedwards3831]

Its strange because the ivory billed woodpecker is thought to be extinct but sometimes someone will see it and capture it ( on camera) and while its unconfirmed that they are in fact the ivory billed woodpecker, it makes u think

[@Revelationscreation]

The coolest nightjar is the pennant winged night jar… legit looks like a kite.

[@haroldalan7080]

Can you do another one about the largest families of Birds of prey members like Owls and Hawks🦉🦉?

[@stevewilliams3850]

Tsuki : What about the pileated woodpecker? It's a large woodpecker. I've seen one before. It was at the top of a tall pecan tree in my back yard, sometime in the mid to late 1990s. And it was huge for a woodpecker. I could tell it was not an ivory bill.

[@omirosthestrongman4941]

Do more birds tsuki

[@TsukiCove]

will do :)

[@eamonahern7495]

I always thought the kookaburra looked like a kingfisher and wondered if it actually was one. This video makes me wonder no more. Nice one 👍

[@a4blackjaguar965]

Wait do you have a job or do you do this full time because your videos are so high quality it would take normal people weeks to make

[@TsukiCove]

thank you i appreciate it and yes it's full time now, I wasn't always full time but the channel is big enough now that i can make a career out of it

[@a4blackjaguar965]

@@TsukiCove ​ @TsukiCove That's cool bro btw I recommended you to all my friends also hopefully you get to 100k subs soon :)

[@TsukiCove]

Thanks, i should get there before the end of the year :)

[@johntodd3910]

Marabou are one of my favorite storks next to the Abdim stork

[@TsukiCove]

I like the saddle billed the most i have to say

[@johntodd3910]

@@TsukiCove yes agree What’s your favorite bovid or antelope Mines the wildebeest Have you seen a black wildebeest before or white tailed gnu Can you cover the black wildebeest soon

[@johntodd3910]

@@touremuhammad5983 yes Have you seen an Abdim stork it’s a stork with blue and red of face with black feathers and white

[@burfdaeboiTF2]

@@johntodd3910 I've seen blue wildebeest before during my youth when my family took me to Longleat safari park in the UK (I live in AU). It was such a surreal experience as they were at the time, and still are, some of my favourite animals. There were six of them, all male, that shared an exhibit with rhesus macaques. They can get quite large, especially the males, and are among one of the antelopes in the world. What always fascinated me about the wildebeest was the sheer amount of them which took place in their annual migration across Kenya and Tanzania. One thing I learned about recently is that the in the wildebeests on their annual migration are a keystone species in the Serengeti. As they chew away all the grass they remove fuel for bushfires and allow more trees to grow. Truly a sleeper pic for one of the best bovines!

[@burfdaeboiTF2]

@@touremuhammad5983 I agree nyala are pretty cool too. Iv'e seen them before. They about four male nyala at my local zoo that share an exhibit with a southern white rhinoceros.

[@robertfletcher3421]

Another wonderful presentation. Thank you.

[@TsukiCove]

thank you :)

[@mitchellskene8176]

When you get to arthropods, will you mention the Giant Isopods?

[@bernie2231]

Largest humming bird might be fun on a part two video.

[@AnimalsVehiclesAndMore]

Do you think you could do a video talking about both the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and the Imperial Woodpecker? They're some of my most favorite birds and are incredibly fascinating to study. Yes, I know that many people think that they're extinct, but there's also a lot of people that think they're still alive. I think that both species are still alive, and I love to see a video about these two magnificent birds.

[@TsukiCove]

ivory billed woodpecker will be in my next video but not the imperial woodpecker

[@DillonTrinhProductions]

Nice video as always, I have a video idea, your next video should focus on the freshwater catfish of Japan, like the Amur catfish, Lake Biwa catfish, Rock catfish, etc.

[@januszwodarski3232]

coudl u make a list invasive species in Brazil or top 5 largest birds but not itself genus?

[@januszwodarski3232]

*Could

[@Redneckkratos]

10:54 what kinda bird is that!?! I’m not sure what scientific family he’d fall into but I guarantee he’s the biggest member of his family

[@vitsvoboda2803]

Its called brown barkingbird

[@richardbidinger2577]

Pigeons. There are some incredible members of that family.

[@Crakinator]

Great vid, I’d love a pt 2+ for this since there’s so many bird families. There’s actually more bird species than mammal species, which is kind of insane imo.

[@robertfoskett1016]

There are Storks in Australia. Mainly in Kakadu National Park. I think they are called Jabiru Storks.

[@nilanjanachatterjee9023]

Excellent video 😊

[@santiagoportillo3160]

Can you please do a entire video on extinct birds it’s always so interesting when you talk about extinct animals

[@Guineaest_ofHOODels]

WAIT SO KOOKABURRAS ARE ACTUALLY KINGFISHERS AND NOT BUTCHER BIRDS?!………i have no words

[@anserbauer309]

Absolutely, they are kingfishers..... but Australian magpies are, in fact, butcherbirds.

[@Guineaest_ofHOODels]

BUT-UUUHUHH-BUTA-UHHYUUHUHHGYJUYYUHTTHHH *has a mental breakdown*

[@anserbauer309]

@@Guineaest_ofHOODels I know!

[@Ozraptor4]

Family Artamidae = Aussie magpies, butcherbirds, currawongs & woodswallows.

[@VelociraptorGen2]

Great video!

[@TsukiCove]

Thanks i appreciate it :)

[@Engifarting456]

fun fact: the laughing kookaborras sound is also used for dolphin sound if sped up

[@jakewilson4679]

Your videos are always really great but would you record the sound louder, its very quiet. 👍👍👍

[@seanverdi9236]

More amazing content! Love your videos man! Would love to know out of curiosity where do you get your clips from?

[@thelandlord111]

Legend has it woodpeckers came to Australia and gave up due to the hardwood trees.

[@anniehill9909]

I loved this video. The section on the woodpeckers was particularly interesting, if predictably depressing. 😢 Do you know if nightjars are related to frogmouths, or do they just look similar?

[@sagetmaster4]

They are. Nighthawks, nightjars, whippoorwills and those guys are all the same family Also don't look into the imperial woodpecker...the details are even more depressing than he stated in the video

[@jesteraurita]

I love how the shoebill got super famous for being scary, but the MARABOU STORK IS JUST SITTING THERE

[@TurtleNerite]

If you do a part two you could include: largest parrot, largest owl (that is interesting because it might be two largest owls), largest grebe or largest falcon.

[@mr.x2567]

I’d say the Hyacinth Macaw is the largest parrot.

[@lorefreak94]

Could you do a very do about the different kinds of deer? From moose, white tail, red, fallow, Sitka, pudu, mouse, and musk and any others I don't know of highlighting their differences and range?

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

Kookaburra sped up is the dolphin🐬 effect in Sponge Bob Squareshorts😊

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

They also make cool cricket bats🦇

[@shojinakayama6997]

"Used in traditional medicine" always ticks me off

[@Doodoofart725]

I love kingfishers :) such beautiful little birds

[@MrFkoller]

I'd love to see a largest fish in their families video 🙃 I'm sure the research will be hard, but it sounds very interesting to me, as fish families are so diverse😉

[@shivorshank_]

Love this! After the kookaburra getting biggest kingfisher I was kinda shattered that you didn’t mention the tawny frogmouth in the nightjar list. The body length of Tawny frogmouth is 34 to 53 cm long and a wingspan of 45 to 60 cm

[@DarkMatter1992]

It is unfortunate that the Tawny Frogmouth didn't get at least an honourable mention, while they are closely related to nightjars, frogmouths are in fact a separate species.

[@shivorshank_]

@@DarkMatter1992 you learn something new every day

[@ravenreed5567]

Or the Great Potoo which get 48-60 cm tall and 360-650 grams. wingspans can get up to 100 cm....

[@whitewolf3051]

I think I saw a video on KZbin where a woodpecker was taking chicks of another bird out of an birdhouse while pecking the said birdhouse apart. Safe to say those chicks may have been prey.

[@cosmoesticyt130]

6:15 basically the argument for T. rex vs giga

[@billsmith5166]

Woof! I wouldn't like to wake up and find that stork in my bedroom. By the way, that's not a Goatsucker sucking on a goat. It's a goat sucking on a goat. On second thought, it's is a goat sucker, but it's not a Goatsucker.

[@ajaxtelamonian5134]

Love giant Kingfishers I saw some while I was in South Africa.

[@premakPapu]

Part 2 please

[@troycoley-cn5bb]

W video

[@PuncherOfAbs]

I have an idea Demographically which continent has the most animal deaths Poaching hunting natural disasters diseases competition invasive species habitat loss etc.

[@tonyleukering8832]

The flying birds at 1:29 are crowned cranes, exhibiting the typical crane flight style of very rapid upward wing stroke compared to the downward stroke. Storks fly with a more uniform and generally slower wingbeat.

[@TroyTheCatFish]

Classic Bird W

[@nathanmoore7588]

Do some insects like large butterfly’s/moths

[@emiliarodriguez2264]

In Chile, we call nightjars "gallinas ciegas", literally "blind chickens" and also we call them "plastas", which is how we reffer to those flat poops cows often make, because they look like that XD i think it's too funny hahahahh

[@flightlesslord2688]

Standard-Winged, sounds like it was named by someone who didnt see the bird lol

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

Bring back miniature elephants 🐘 Palaeoloxodon falconeri

[@miguelceromil]

wdym nightjars are active during the day? I feel lied to

[@raphlvlogs271]

king fishers are just like miniature pelicans

[@niamtxiv]

Loons are beautiful

[@aneasrotoloni9809]

A second part would be wonderful , who's according to this?

[@aidenpogson1327]

I thought the new Caledonian nightjar was currently the biggest today, though there was the NZ Owlet-nightjar which was said to be the biggest and was said to be either a poor flyer or flightless and fed on huhu beetles, cicadas, mothes, and wētā.

[@martinphilip8998]

I loved this but have only one criticism. While a rich visual background can help tell a story, do we really need some stock images of Antarctica to understand that some birds don’t live there?

[@mariebrown4458]

Wow! I Thought The Shoe Bill Stork Was The Biggest Stork😮😮😮😮😮

[@scottjustscott3730]

No mention of the two most well known nightjar species in the US? The nighthawk and the whippoorwill?

[@uncolored2060]

I couldn't resist *I'M THE BIGGEST BIRD*

[@samdegoeij6576]

Aren't Shoebills part of the Stork family?

[@jonpaul3868]

F22 got kookaburra's beak😂

[@jakewilson4679]

Bird is the word...

[@vanessafigueroa4368]

U also forgot to mention European storks

[@donaldchesser157]

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree, Merry merry king of the bush is he. Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra, Gay your life must be!

[@user-qk4kg7xw8o]

BIRB MOMENT

[@tikimillie]

2:31 dont get why they wear a brain on their shoulders

[@NebezpecnyXomakc]

Incredibly amazing dinosaurs inhabit our planet

[@nabeelkhalid2346]

Parrots, Giant among Parrots

[@omirosthestrongman4941]

Aside

[@williamestes629]

Smallest non-dolphin whales.

[@josephrion3514]

Woodpeckers rock.

[@kencrum2524]

“Storks are most common in Asia” the mystery of high population in some Asian countries solved 😊

[@michaelrae9599]

I am a responsible adult and the first thing I thought of was "is he going to do largest B00bies?" And that led me to the other one too. Sorry.

[@Dimitriterrorman]

but IM THE BIGGEST BIRD

[@travisarmatage2776]

Trumpeter swan

[@J0ECRAWF15H]

Thumbs up if you also read that title wrong. 👍

[@matthewshiers9038]

Sounds like a robot read this script.