Top 5 Birds with necks longer than the Great White Egret. #birdwatching

The great white egret in my opinion is one of the most graceful wilder birds out there. When it stretches out its neck you would think it'd be one of the longest necks out there for wilder birds but apparently it's not. There are other birds that definitely make the list of longer necks than the great white egret. One off the top of my mind would be the ostrich. The ostrich obviously is longer but that's not a wilder bird. That is a non-wilder so we won't count that for this top five list. If it was it'd definitely be the longest on that list. There are other type of egrets as well such as the callow egret, the snowy egret. We're just going to go over the regular great white egret just to keep it simple because the callow egret is a lot smaller in size and I'd want to mix things up right now. It's hard enough trying to keep track of them. Number five on this list is the pelican. Surprisingly it has a longer neck than the great white egret even though it looks really sturdy looking and you wouldn't think it'd have a longer neck. It actually does. Yes the pelican comes in at number five. Number four is one of my favorites, blue herons. On the northeast coast they're pretty common but they're still an amazing wilder bird and I see them all the time in New Jersey. They're just a graceful wilder bird and again it's one of my favorite birds out there. Compared to the great white egret they're slightly larger, have a longer wingspan, just a little bit taller but they're not that much different actually in terms of size. Blue herons have anywhere from 20 to 22 vertebrae in their standard s-shaped form when their neck is like that. Number three on the list are sandhill cranes or cranes in general. Sandhill cranes have anywhere from 17 to 20 vertebrae. They're similar to geese in terms of the number of vertebrae. I don't see many of these in New Jersey actually. I don't know if I ever saw a crane in New Jersey but they are pretty common in Florida and yeah sandhill is pretty cool. Seems pretty domesticated in a way because it's not afraid of humans. I guess that's what happens when people feed them all the time. They just have no more fear of humans anymore because they get fed all the time. Number two on the list are the majestic flamingos. With 19 vertebrae the flamingos have 12 more vertebrae than humans. They can actually sleep with their head twisted onto their back. They actually feed with their heads upside down. Don't ask me how that works, ask a flamingo expert. Of all the wilderbirds, the swan has the longest neck with 25 vertebrae. That's a lot more than any other wilderbird out there. They can use that to attack you. A swan's neck can be over three feet or one meter long so that's longer than your arm I think. So the next time you get close to a swan realize that with a three foot neck it can definitely attack you before you can get away if you're too close. So this is the final top five list of wilderbirds that have longer necks than the great white egret. I still like the great white egret more than most of these other wilderbirds on this list.