Creatures: "The Great Blue Windrunner"

From "The future is wild" series. This program shows fictional creatures that live in planet earth without humans (which were extinct), in 5, 100 and 200 millions years from now. The Great blue windrunner is one of my favorites creatures of this show.

** About the bird **
The great blue windrunner is a fantastic fictional large bird with a wingspan of 3 meters long. It lives in 100 million years in the future and evolved from cranes. He can be found in plains and in a fictional "Great Plateau" created by Australian and North-American continents colliding, which reach more than 12.000 meters high (much higher than the former Tibetan Plateau).

How it lives?
During the warmer months, these birds are able to reach high altitudes. As the thin air cannot support wings as well as denser air near the ground, the windrunner spend the winter in the lowlands.

To reach high altitudes, the windrunner evolved flight feathers on its legs, so it can use them as an extra pair of wings for gliding. This way he can flight in thin air of The Great plateau. Its head also has feathery tufts which act as gliding wings to support its head during the flight.

At such high altitude, there is more ultraviolet light from the sun, so the windrunner is covered in fluorescent blue feathers that reflect this dangerous light. Their eyes are protected by lenses which act as "built-in sunglasses".

The great blue windrunners primarily eat silver spiders snatched from their webs.

Music: Yanni - "True Nature" (Edited).

Images and music copyright of their respective owners.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• lemr.rj
• future
• wild
• great
• blue
• windrunner
• evolution
• flight
• yanni
• true
• nature

[lifeform106]

hey dude since this is your favorite future animal and the skewer is your favorite alien planet alien make a video showing the skewer like this video did for the blue wing runner. What do you think of that

[lemaro1977]

@lifeform106 hey!! you give me now a great idea!! thanks, I will take note!

[lemaro1977]

@lifeform106 I already took note!!! I will do it as soons as possible!! really!

[Junketh71]

Is it just me, or are you a big fan of Yanni?

[lemaro1977]

@Junketh71 Yes, I´m a big fan olf his musics. :-)

regards,

[LeftSock06]

Love this bird. Sad, though, that it doesn't exist today.

[lemaro1977]

maybe on day.... only time will tell!

[ironyoshi1212]

It Looks Like A Blue Bird-ish Version Of Microraptor

[virus1244]

I would love to see this bird

[lifeform106]

@lemaro1977 Your welcome i have been giving you a lot of ideas and i can't wait til i see the skewer from alien planet cause this is a awesome video but i would love to see a skewer video! And can you pick a different type of music cause it would strange using calm music for a animal getting speared and rip apart lol

[Mr2at]

slurp, just like chicken?

[memorlan]

it really is a beautiful bird. anyone know how large it is? 

[Zita4ever]

Reminds me of the Pokemon Articuno

[princeLC]

@Scoinsoffaterocks Dude i remember seeing this years ago on Tv and i have not been able to get it out of my head. It's such a beautiful creature and those wings on its legs are amazing i dont know theres something angelic about it i guess.