🐦
Blue-footed booby
Sula nebouxii
Birds · Least concern
vs
🦩
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
Birds · Least concern
One clip names both of them
18,153 views between them.
Greater Flamingo outweighs Blue-footed booby 2.0× — 3 kg against 1.5 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.
Tale of the tape
Body mass
1.52 kg
🐦 Blue-footed booby · AVONET
3.03 kg
🦩 Greater Flamingo · AVONET
Body length
0.84 m
🐦 Blue-footed booby · SeaLifeBase
no figure yet
🦩 Greater Flamingo
Maximum lifespan
18 yr
🐦 Blue-footed booby · AnAge
59 yr
🦩 Greater Flamingo · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
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Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Aves (class), home to 18,988 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.