wingspan
കുട്ടപ്പന്
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With their stately stature, wingspreads as broad as eight feet, loud calls, and elaborate courtship dances, cranes are among the most impressive birds in the world.
the maximum extent across the wings of an aircraft, bird, or other flying animal, measured from tip to tip.
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Swans are large birds with a 'wingspan' of four feet or more and although injuries to humans are rare they are not unknown.
Experts on the red kite - a spectacular bird with a 'wingspan' of up to 6ft - say it is essentially a scavenger which feeds on carrion rather than attacking sheep or game birds.
The air vehicle is a low wing monoplane with a 'wingspan' of 3.42m, length 2.29m and height 0.96m.
The surface area of the wings is tremendous and the 'wingspan' large, but the relative length of the fuselage is shorter than most other aircraft of its era.
It was a supreme moment when a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest 'wingspan' of any bird, arrived!
The American White Pelican is a huge white bird with a nine-foot 'wingspan' .
That would have been a huge 'wingspan' for a bird, much less for a bat.
it has a five metre 'wingspan'
an eagle with a 'wingspan' of 7 ft
The presence of a bird with a 'wingspan' of around 1.5m must have been very distressing.
With a 500-foot 'wingspan' , the aircraft is designed to fly at just 20 feet above the sea, giving it a longer range - up to 10,000 nautical miles over water.
With a 'wingspan' of three feet or more, flying foxes are the largest mammals capable of sustained flight.
With a three-foot 'wingspan' and two long, streaming tail feathers, these birds are easy to recognize.
A substantial part of the lift generated by the forward-swept wing occurs at the inner portion of the 'wingspan' .
The hydrogen-fueled aircraft has a 'wingspan' of approximately 5 feet, measures 12 feet long and weighs about 2,800 pounds.
They include the largest known bats; Indonesian flying foxes may have 'wingspans' of up to six feet (two meters).
Great teratorn birds with 25-foot 'wingspans' stalked prey.
The adult is a pretty moth about 1 inch long with a 'wingspread' of 1 1/2 inches; in its northern range, it may be only 1/2 inch long.
With their stately stature, 'wingspreads' as broad as eight feet, loud calls, and elaborate courtship dances, cranes are among the most impressive birds in the world.
Females weigh about 2 pounds with a 'wingspread' of 40 to 46 inches, while a male will weigh in at about 1 ½ pounds and span just 37 to 39 inches, roughly the size of a crow.
The Andean condor, one of the world's largest flying birds, soars on ten-foot (three-meter) 'wingspans' and can weigh up to 33 pounds.
To be surrounded by dozens of squawking, hissing sea birds with 10 ft 'wingspans' was one thing, but add to that a pod of 600 acrobatic dusky dolphins and you had a wildlife spectacle to rival anything on earth.
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