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Flamenco común (Phoenicopterus roseus), parque nacional de Amboseli, Kenia, 2024 05 22, DD 35🦩

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SpeciesPhoenicopteriformesPhoenicopteridae
Birds

🦩Greater Flamingo

Phoenicopterus roseus Pallas, 1811

オオフラミンゴ（学名：Phoenicopterus roseus）は、フラミンゴ目フラミンゴ科に分類される鳥類の一種。 フラミンゴ科の鳥の中で最も広く分布している種である。別名はヨーロッパフラミンゴ。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/20th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

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
59 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Greater 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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
59 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
30 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
1
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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
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 Greater Flamingo yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPhoenicopteriformes
  5. ›familyPhoenicopteridae
  6. ›genusPhoenicopterus
  7. ›speciesPhoenicopterus roseus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderPhoenicopteriformes
  3. familyPhoenicopteridae
  4. genusPhoenicopterus
All 12 branches ↓
  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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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Great Crested Grebe — last shared an ancestor ≈ 59 million years ago.
In other languages
Flamingo (nl), Phoenicopterus roseus (fr), flaming różowy (pl), פלמינגו מצוי (he), Flamenco común (es), rózsás flamingó (hu) … and 27 more languages

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