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American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)🦩

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SpeciesPhoenicopteriformesPhoenicopteridae
Birds

🦩American Flamingo

Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus, 1758

Le Flamant des Caraïbes (Phoenicopterus ruber), est une espèce d'oiseaux de la famille des Phoenicopteridae. Il est également appelé Flamant de Cuba ou Flamant rouge. C'est une espèce de flamants, proche du Flamant du Chili (Phoenicopterus chilensis).

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/20th of your weight
Also called
Caribbean Flamingo
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the American Flamingo

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

Body mass
3.03 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

By sex

  • Female2.52 kgWikidataQ208004
  • Male3.58 kgWikidataQ208004

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Volume l
3 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 American Flamingo yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPhoenicopteriformes
  5. ›familyPhoenicopteridae
  6. ›genusPhoenicopterus
  7. ›speciesPhoenicopterus ruber
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderPhoenicopteriformes
  3. familyPhoenicopteridae
  4. genusPhoenicopterus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPhoenicopteriformes
  11. familyPhoenicopteridae
  12. genusPhoenicopterus
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In other languages
Flamingo-americano (pt), オオフラミンゴ (ja), flamenc del Carib (ca), plameňák karibský (cs), Cariberflamingo (da), Kubaflamingo (de) … and 24 more languages

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