🦩African Sacred Ibis
De heilige ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) is een ibissoort. In het oude Egypte werd dit dier vereerd als symbool van de god Thoth. Aan dit gebruik dankt deze soort zijn naam. Andere triviale namen zijn: nijlreiger, nijlvogel.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- 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
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 mass1.49 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 1.53 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length0.15 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.36 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.16 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.11 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan37 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.5 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderPelecaniformes
- ›familyThreskiornithidae
- ›genusThreskiornis
- ›speciesThreskiornis aethiopicus
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyThreskiornithidae
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyThreskiornithidae
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