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
https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
patrickkavanagh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick...
(CC BY 2.0)
Martha de Jong-Lantink
https://www.flickr.com/photos/marthae...
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Frank Vassen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/4224496...
(CC BY 2.0)
Sergey Yeliseev
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yeliseev/
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Aardwolf6886
https://www.flickr.com/photos/1327344...
(CC BY-ND 2.0)
Allan Hopkins
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoppy1951/
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Joseph Gage
https://www.flickr.com/photos/1819206...
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
Greg Miles
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregbm/
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
budak
https://www.flickr.com/photos/budak/
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Jason Thompson
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7949285...
(CC BY 2.0)
stirwise
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stirwise/
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Diana Padrón
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7824722...
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
H. Zell
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Us...
(CC BY-SA 3.0)
Ed Dunens
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blachswan/
(CC BY 2.0)
JJ Harrison
https://www.jjharrison.com.au/
(CC BY-SA 3.0)

Stork images:
Skip Russell
https://www.flickr.com/photos/skipr/
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Ekaterina Chernetsova (Papchinskaya)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/katechka/
(CC BY 2.0)
Nik Borrow
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nikborrow/
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
flowcomm
https://www.flickr.com/photos/flowcomm/
(CC BY 2.0)
Charles J. Sharp
https://www.sharpphotography.co.uk/
(CC BY-SA 4.0)
Bernard DUPONT
https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/
(CC BY-SA 2.0)

Nightjar footage:
Robert Barnes
https://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
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7949285...
(CC BY 2.0)
Robin Gwen Agarwal (ANudibranchMom on iNaturalist)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/3031443...
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith
https://www.flickr.com/photos/slobirdr/
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
Andreas Trepte
http://photo-natur.de/
(CC BY-SA 4.0)
Andreas Trepte
http://photo-natur.de/
(CC BY-SA 4.0)

Loon footage:
Watervogelbond
https://vimeo.com/user5163765
CC BY-NC-SA
Peter Bloch
https://vimeo.com/peterbloch
CC BY-NC-ND
Shetland Wildlife
https://vimeo.com/shetlandwildlife
CC BY-NC-ND
Alaska Extreme
   / @alaskaextreme  

Loon images:
Mick Thompson
https://www.flickr.com/photos/micktho...
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Aki Mykkänen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mygii/
(CC BY-NC 2.0)
Seney Natural History Association
https://www.flickr.com/photos/seneynwr/
Lorie Shaull
https://www.flickr.com/photos/number7...
(CC BY 2.0)
Richard Crossley
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
(CC BY-SA 3.0)

Duck image:
Matthew Paulson
https://www.flickr.com/photos/matthew...
(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images.
Creative commons licences: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed :)