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Is there any information available about the size of these birds? Delsydebothom (talk) 16:49, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No size estimate has been published, just measurements of the few individual bones recovered. It seems to have been about the same size as Presbyornis, with slightly longer wings. A quikc calculation of wing bone measurements in the supplementary info gives me a wingspan of about 2ft (60 cm), but keep in mind only the upper arm bone is known, the rest is based on relatives. It was probably longer-bodied than Presbyornis, since the sacrum is twice as long, but we don't know how long the neck was to the total length can't really be known. Dinoguy2 (talk) 17:23, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"has cried fowl" - is that meant to be a joke? Fig (talk) 09:49, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Vegaviiformes

Where does this classification come from? The species was described as a member of Anseriformes; Clarke et al., 2016 put it inside Anseriformes; Agnolín et al., 2017 writes "In agreement with previous interpretations (Noriega and Tambussi 1995; Clarke et al. 2005), Vegavis is here recovered as belonging to Anseriformes". Stas (talk) 22:31, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Absurdly Bad Image

Look, I've hand-drawn for Wikipedia before, but however good or bad it was, it at least distinctively resembled the subject at hand. That bird, surely drawn by a child, could be any bird at all. Let's find something better. Or maybe even remove it entirely, if necessary. It's actually worse than nothing, I think. —Kaz (talk) 23:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]