🦩American Flamingo
El flamenco del Caribe o flamenco rojo (Phoenicopterus ruber) es un ave de la familia Phoenicopteridae que vive en áreas tropicales de América, incluyendo las Antillas, la costa de la Península de Yucatán, el norte de Colombia y Venezuela, en el sur de Florida en los Estados Unidos, en las islas Galápagos y en el norte de Honduras. Se conocen varias subespecies. En algunas regiones de habla hispana, como la Península de Yucatán también es conocido como flamingo.
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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
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderPhoenicopteriformes
- familyPhoenicopteridae
- genusPhoenicopterus
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