Threskiornis aethiopicus  Mida Creek mud flats, Kenya 8🦩

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SpeciesPelecaniformesThreskiornithidae
Birds

🦩African Sacred Ibis

Threskiornis aethiopicus (Latham, 1790)

아프리카검은따오기(학명: Threskiornis aethiopicus)는 저어새과에 속하는 물새인 따오기아과의 일종이다. 아프리카 대부분과 이라크, 이란, 쿠웨이트의 작은 지역이 원산지이다. 영어 향명은 sacred ibis(신성한 따오기)라고 하는데, 고대 이집트 종교에서 토트 신의 상징이기 때문이다. 이 종은 현재 이집트에서 멸종되었다.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.49 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
37 years
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Everything we know about the African Sacred Ibis

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

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

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  • 1.53 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.15 m
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Wing length
0.36 m
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Beak length
0.16 m
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Tarsus length
0.11 m
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Maximum lifespan
37 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
Wetland
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Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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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 African Sacred Ibis yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPelecaniformes
  5. ›familyThreskiornithidae
  6. ›genusThreskiornis
  7. ›speciesThreskiornis aethiopicus
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. familyThreskiornithidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyThreskiornithidae
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Heiliger Ibis (de), ibis czczony (pl), Ibis sacré (fr), Threskiornis aethiopicus (es), szent íbisz (hu), Threskiornis aethiopicus (it) … and 26 more languages
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