This article is about using the term in ornithology. For the aviation meaning of the term, see Wingspan
Wingspan means the distance from the top of the left wing to the top of the right in winged animals. Wingspan is measured between the tops of spread wings in birds , bats or insects .
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Wingspan Records
The biggest wingspan
- Bats: Birds - 2 meters [1]
- Bird: Wandering Albatross - 3.63 meters
- Bird (extinct): Pelagornis sandersi - 7.0 - 7.8
- Reptile (extinct): Hatzegopteryx [2] (genus pterosaurs) - from 10 to 18 meters [3]
- Insect: Agrippin scoop - 0.28 meters [4]
- Insect (extinct): Meganeuropsis permiana - up to 0.71 m [5] .
The smallest wingspan
- Bats: Pig-bat - 16 cm. [1]
- Bird: Hummingbird-bee - 6.5 cm.
- Insect: Tanzanian parasitic wasp - 0.2 mm.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Sea World: Bats , abgerufen am 23. Juni 2007
- ↑ Hatzegopteryx (Russian) // Wikipedia.
- ↑ New Zealand Herald: Flying dinosaur biggest airborne animal , abgerufen am 23. Juni 2007
- ↑ University of Florida Book of Insect Records: Largest Lepidopteran Wing Span Archived March 2, 2008. , abgerufen am 23. Juni 2007
- ↑ Mitchell, FL and Lasswell, J. (2005): A dazzle of dragonflies Texas A&M University Press, 224 pages: page 47. Google Books