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Common ostrich

Struthio camelus · Family Struthionidae

Struthio camelus

Family Struthionidae

Order
Struthioniformes
Family
Struthionidae
GBIF occurrence records
143,141
Countries and territories with records
75
Common ostrich
Lip Kee from Singapore, Republic of Singapore · North African Ostrich - Masai Ostrich (Struthio camelus massaicus) - Flickr - Lip Kee.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Lip Kee from Singapore, Republic of Singapore · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 143,141 occurrence records from 75 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (61.9%), Kenya (12.9%), Namibia (9.9%), Tanzania (8.7%) and Botswana (3.4%); together they account for 97% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.22% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Struthio camelus combines the genus name Struthio with the species epithet camelus. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Struthio: Struthio molybdophanes.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 2 species of the family Struthionidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 1.9 times the family average (74,117). The family Struthionidae belongs to the order Struthioniformes, which has 2 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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