🦩American Flamingo
The American flamingo is a large species of flamingo native to the West Indies, northern South America and the Yucatán Peninsula. It is closely related to the greater flamingo and Chilean flamingo, and was formerly considered conspecific with the greater flamingo, but that treatment is now widely viewed as incorrect due to a lack of evidence. It is also known as the Caribbean flamingo, although it is also present in the Galápagos Islands. It is the only flamingo that naturally inhabits North America.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 3.03 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the American Flamingo
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass3.03 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female2.52 kgWikidataQ208004
- Male3.58 kgWikidataQ208004
Figures vary
- 3.07 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Tail length0.14 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.41 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.13 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.28 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatCoastalAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l3 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for American Flamingo yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderPhoenicopteriformes
- ›familyPhoenicopteridae
- ›genusPhoenicopterus
- ›speciesPhoenicopterus ruber
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPhoenicopteriformes
- familyPhoenicopteridae
- genusPhoenicopterus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPhoenicopteriformes
- familyPhoenicopteridae
- genusPhoenicopterus
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