🐦Kori Bustard
The kori bustard is the largest flying bird native to Africa. It is a member of the bustard family, which all belong to the order Otidiformes and are restricted in distribution to the Old World. It is one of the four species in the large-bodied genus Ardeotis. The male kori bustard may be the heaviest living animal capable of flight.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 7.99 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Kori Bustard
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass7.99 kgAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tail length0.35 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.71 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.11 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.21 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelOmnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatGrasslandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l8 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
Wingspan694 maverage628–760 m · range across sexesOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.
By sex
- Male760 mWikidataQ686287
- Female628 mWikidataQ686287
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Kori Bustard yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderOtidiformes
- ›familyOtididae
- ›genusArdeotis
- ›speciesArdeotis kori
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyOtididae
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyOtididae
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