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SpeciesCiconiiformesCiconiidae
Birds

🐦Jabiru

Jabiru mycteria (Lichtenstein, 1819)

The jabiru is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes. It sometimes wanders into the United States, usually in Texas, but has also been reported in Mississippi, Oklahoma and Louisiana. It is most common in the Pantanal region of Brazil and the Eastern Chaco region of Paraguay. It is the only member of the genus Jabiru. The name comes from the Tupi–Guaraní language and means "swollen neck".

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
6 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
27 years
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Everything we know about the Jabiru

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
27 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

Habitat
Grassland
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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
6 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.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCiconiiformes
  5. ›familyCiconiidae
  6. ›genusJabiru
  7. ›speciesJabiru mycteria
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyCiconiidae
  4. genusJabiru
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyCiconiidae
  11. genusJabiru
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In other languages
Jabiru (de), جابيرو (ar), Jabirú americà (ca), čáp jabiru (cs), Jabiru mycteria (es), jabiru (fi) … and 26 more languages
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EstaçãoEcologicadeTaiamã WilliamCarvalhojk (02)002 Jabiru feeding its babies in their nest in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles Laurent
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