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Threskiornis aethiopicus Mida Creek mud flats, Kenya 8🦩

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SpeciesPelecaniformesThreskiornithidae
Birds

🦩African Sacred Ibis

Threskiornis aethiopicus (Latham, 1790)

Der Pharaonenibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) oder Heilige Ibis ist eine Vogelart aus der Familie der Ibisse und Löffler (Threskiornithidae) und lebte ursprünglich fast ausschließlich in Afrika.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.49 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
37 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the African Sacred Ibis

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.49 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.53 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.15 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.36 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.16 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
37 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.5 Laverage
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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 African Sacred Ibis yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPelecaniformes
  5. ›familyThreskiornithidae
  6. ›genusThreskiornis
  7. ›speciesThreskiornis aethiopicus
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. familyThreskiornithidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyThreskiornithidae
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In other languages
Heiliger Ibis (de), ibis czczony (pl), Ibis sacré (fr), Threskiornis aethiopicus (es), szent íbisz (hu), Threskiornis aethiopicus (it) … and 26 more languages
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Threskiornis aethiopicus Mida Creek mud flats, Kenya 8Sacred Ibis Gambia River (31838113623)
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