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Avutarda kori (Ardeotis kori), zona de conservación de Ngorongoro, Tanzania, 2024 05 27, DD 38🐦

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SpeciesOtidiformesOtididae
Birds

🐦Kori Bustard

Ardeotis kori (Burchell, 1822)

灰颈鹭鸨（学名：Ardeotis kori），又称南非大鸨，是生活在非洲的一种大型鸟类，是可飞鸟中最重的一种之一。通常为灰色的身体，头顶为黑色，腿为黄色。

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Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Everything we know about the Kori Bustard

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Body mass
7.99 kg
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Tail length
0.35 m
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Wing length
0.71 m
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Beak length
0.11 m
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Tarsus length
0.21 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
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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
8 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

Wingspan
694 maverage628–760 m · range across sexes
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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.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderOtidiformes
  5. ›familyOtididae
  6. ›genusArdeotis
  7. ›speciesArdeotis kori
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. familyOtididae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyOtididae
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pioc salvatge kori (ca), drop kori (cs), Koritrappe (da), Riesentrappe (de), Ardeotis kori (es), kuningastrappi (fi) … and 22 more languages
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Avutarda kori (Ardeotis kori), zona de conservación de Ngorongoro, Tanzania, 2024 05 27, DD 38Avutarda kori (Ardeotis kori), parque nacional de Amboseli, Kenia, 2024 05 23, DD 03
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