Feet on the ground
New Caledonia in the western Pacific has a virtually flightless bird called the kagu. Its ancestors must have flown here, but as there were no ground predators, they gave up flying. Today's kagu is virtually flightless. It finds all its food on the ground in the leaf litter. Its ancestors may have been herons.
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