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2021 sep kenia 85 (51677644184)🦩

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SpeciesPhoenicopteriformesPhoenicopteridae
Birds

🦩Lesser Flamingo

Phoeniconaias minor (É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1798)

Le Flamant nain ou petit flamant (Phoeniconaias minor) est une espèce d'oiseaux de la famille des Phoenicopteridae. Il se rencontre depuis l’Afrique (principalement dans la vallée du Grand Rift) jusqu’en Inde. C’est le plus petit et le plus nombreux des flamants, comptant probablement jusqu’à un ou deux millions et demi d’individus. C'est la seule espèce du genre Phoeniconaias.

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Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.5 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
41 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Lesser Flamingo

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
41 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Trophic level
Herbivore
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 Lesser Flamingo yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPhoenicopteriformes
  5. ›familyPhoenicopteridae
  6. ›genusPhoeniconaias
  7. ›speciesPhoeniconaias minor
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderPhoenicopteriformes
  3. familyPhoenicopteridae
  4. speciesPhoeniconaias
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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. speciesPhoeniconaias
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In other languages
Flamenc menut (ca), plameňák malý (cs), Lille Flamingo (da), Zwergflamingo (de), Phoenicopterus minor (es), pikkuflamingo (fi) … and 25 more languages
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