Largest Bird Eggs by Weight
The weight of eggs laid by different birds, in grams. The ostrich lays the largest egg of any living bird at about 1,400 g - roughly the weight of two dozen chicken eggs - while the tiny bee hummingbird's egg weighs less than a gram.
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Largest Bird Eggs by WeightThe ostrich egg (1,400 g) is the heaviest laid by any living bird, more than twice the weight of the next-largest eggs from the cassowary and greater rhea (600 g each) and the emu (550 g). All four heavyweights belong to large flightless birds, whose big bodies produce correspondingly big eggs. The kiwi (400 g) is the remarkable exception: though a chicken-sized bird, it lays an egg proportionally the largest of any bird - up to a quarter of the mother's body weight. The contrast at the bottom is staggering: an ostrich egg outweighs a chicken egg (60 g) more than twentyfold and the bee hummingbird's (0.5 g) by nearly 3,000 times, spanning almost the entire size range of birds in a single chart.
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